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...time Flying Circus began, and the one who had become a familiar television personality pre-Python. He was also the first to get bored by the show. Cleese did go on the lam a lot, leaving the Pythons more times than Judy Garland sang "Over the Rainbow." He wrote little for the third season of the TV show (he claims doing only the two most famous sketches, Cheese Shop and Dennis Moore) and was absent from the fourth...
...hairstylists in business in the 1930s. Betty Grable's legs inadvertently sold the first disposable razors marketed to women, after World War II. It was only a matter of time before actors realized the potential profits behind being such successful marketing tools for beauty brands, and before long, Judy Garland and Joan Crawford signed on to appear in magazine advertisements for Max Factor in the '30s and '40s. Although Farrah Fawcett sold untold amounts of Wella Balsam conditioner in the '70s and L'Oréal has had a revolving army of actors proclaiming "Because I'm worth it" for four...
...movie version, Allyson went west, and stayed there. So did Stanley Donen, who would soon graduate from chorus boy to choreographer and director, and Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, whom the studio signed to write the score for Meet Me in St. Louis, starring the MGM princess Judy Garland. The diva and the ingenue would become lifelong friends...
...Allyson's first starring role was as Navy man Robert Walker's bride in The Sailor Takes a Wife. Walker had been all dewy moonlight as a soldier courting Garland the year before in The Clock, to which this film is an uneasy sequel, but now he learns the price of romantic impulse. The newlyweds, holed up in an improbably palatial Greenwich Village apartment (at MGM, even squalor was laid out on the grand scale), are so ill-matched, the happy ending is either a reversal or a strenuous act of Hollywood's wishful thinking. Presenting the hard facts...
...deserve one. With her last husband, Dr. David Ashrow, D.D.S., she established the June Allyson Foundation with the goal of "Supporting medical research of incontinence to better understand its causes and impact, improve education, and develop improved treatment options." She also, Wikipedia says, raised money for the Judy Garland and James Stewart museums...