Word: fernando
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thrice-married Lana Turner, whose name has been linked romantically with Argentine Singer Fernando Lamas, her leading man in The Merry Widow, decided to call it off, now that the picture is released and doing well. The romance, the studio announced, was over, but Lana and Lamas are still "good friends...
Spain and Mexico were matched at Cesta Punto (considered the purest pelota form) in the final. Mexico's stocky Fernando Pareyon and Manuel Barrera, a ferocious hitter, were favored by the aficionados over the wiry Spanish brother team, Manolo and Joaquin Balet, sons of a wealthy Catalonian textile manufacturer and oldtime pelota champion. While the Mexican team led a carefree tourist life before the match, Papa Balet whisked his sons off to a secluded retreat...
...Merry Widow (MGM) is the fourth Hollywood version of the famed old (1905) Franz Lehar operetta.* This time Lana Turner is the wealthy Widow Radek from Hoboken, and Fernando Lamas is Count Danilo of Marshovia, who is assigned to marry her in order to save his country from bankruptcy, an act of cold-blooded patriotism that is complicated by hot-blooded love...
...Wanta Play Cards?"DesiandLucille live an unpretentious life on a five-acre ranch in the San Fernando Valley. The only Hollywood note is a kidney-shaped swimming pool, and the most recent addition to the house (a wing devoted to daughter Lucie and her nurse) cost $22,000-more than the house and land cost originally. Neither Desi nor Lucille has ever been socially ambitious, and their friends are the same ones they have known for years. Both Desi's mother (now divorced from Arnaz Sr., who still lives in Miami) and Lucille's Mom live near...
...series. When he needed an apartment set, he rented a furnished apartment for one day (at $75). For scenes in a wealthy man's home, Stone used his own in Brentwood. When the script called for a more modest home, he rented one in California's San Fernando Valley for a day, moved the family out until shooting was over. He even used a real police station-free of charge. After he was well into the TV story, Stone realized that he had a possible full-length movie, so he made the necessary alterations in his story. Result...