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...heart attack; in Beverly Hills. A shrewd and durable Russian immigrant with a talent for bargaining that propelled him from a drugstore in Manhattan's Chinatown to an estimated $100 million in movie earnings, Schenck possessed a way with people that won him the trust of all filmdom, enabled him to function as Hollywood's peacemaker (he settled the long-standing feud between Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin) and to launch a clutch of stars ranging from Norma Talmadge (his wife from 1917 to 1934) to Marilyn Monroe...
Facts of Life sounds more like truth than filmdom. Here is my September 1960 vintage sonnet, "Were I His Mistress...
...Pacific Stars and Stripes columnists, who include Walter Lippmann, Joseph Alsop, Red Smith and Lovelornist Abigail Van Buren, the most widely read by far is Ricketts, a Buddha-shaped (5 ft. 4 in., 175 Ibs.) 32-year-old who chomps a long black cigar with a ferocity suggestive of filmdom's bad guy, Edward G. Robinson (see cut). The Ricketts wit is the sort that leads to lynching. As entertainment editor of the Pacific Stars and Stripes, the U.S. armed forces newspaper in the Far East with a circulation of 65,000 and an estimated readership...
...roles with a thick Russian accent, a $2,500-a-week asset of which he made light. ("Italian, I murder; Eenglish, I only manslaughter.") St. Petersburg-born, Ratoff left Russia after the Revolution, after years as a Broadway and Hollywood star won a reputation as one of filmdom's most versatile and gaudily garbed directors; of leukemia; in Solothurn, Switzerland...
David Goldbogen, brother of the late Cinemogul Mike Todd, last week had an eye-boggling idea for dressing up the plot in Forest Park, Ill., where Mike's body lies. The proposal: a 9-ft.-tall, 2-ton, $8,000 marble statue of filmdom's Oscar, which Mike won for Around the World in 80 Days (still busy at the box offices). No inscription would mar the marble, said David, adding thoughtfully: "We would want to keep the memorial simple." But at week's end Hollywood's Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences warned that...