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Married. Marylyn Hauoli Thorpe, 18, daughter of Cinemactress Mary (Dodsworth) Astor and second husband Dr. Franklyn P. Thorpe, whose 1936 courtroom squabble over her custody became a sexy tabloid sensation; and Frank John Roh Jr., 27, University of Southern California graduate student (drama); in Sherman Oaks, Calif...
...Canadian-born Actor Huston played his first Broadway bit (In Convict Stripes) in 1905, but spent 15 years in vaudeville before stage fame came to him (Eugene O'Neill's 1924 Desire Under the Elms, the 1938 Maxwell Anderson-Kurt Weill musicomedy hit, Knickerbocker Holiday). Hollywood successes (Dodsworth, All That Money Can Buy, Mission to Moscow) boosted him into the top pay brackets (recently $7,500 a week). For his supporting role in Treasure of Sierra Madre, written and directed by his son John, he got an Oscar...
...tailor ("I'm a well-dressed man!" he indignantly insists) and curbs his hair, but he has somehow managed to retain the air of permanent dishevelment. Once ex-New Yorker Writer Margaret Case Harriman called Ross "that lovable old volcano," and the late Alexander Woollcott described him as "Dodsworth, with an overlay of violence." Ross is still personally noisy and professionally restrained, still charmingly churlish and intelligently ignorant, but his reputation for irascibility exceeds his performance...
...Damn my own left-wing compulsions," said Sinclair ("Red") Lewis, 65 (Main Street, Babbitt, Dodsworth), to the New York Times at his cháteau in Florence, Italy. "I'm always trying to tie ribbons on lampposts ... I don't know what to do about anything. I'm not a reformer. I really don't care...
...design for Broadway shows. So Sophie designed for 29 shows one year and 32 the next: among them were Dodsworth, The Women, Reunion in Vienna. As customers began to find their way to the salon, she dropped all theatrical designing except as an occasional favor for one of her friends. The profit was not worth the worry. "They always beat down your price and then wanted another 10% off for the publicity," Sophie says...