Word: gene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Twentieth Century-Fox could not take it. Scores of disillusioned cinemaddicts had written letters to express their horror at the idea that 20th Century's beglamored Gene Tierney smoked cigars. The studio told NBC to fire the man who said so (Hollywood Gossip Columnist Jimmie Fidler) or no 20th Century star could ever appear on the network again...
Gossip Fidler stuck by his popguns: what he had said was that blue-eyed Gene Tierney had been observed sickly smoking a cigar in hope of acclimatizing herself to her husband's stogies. Miss Tierney denied the charge...
...ceiling has severely reduced the amount of work movie stars can do for pay. Hollywood wants its stars to use up their working capital in pictures, not on the air. But if all studios joined 20th Century's boycott, radio would lose a majority of its best names. Gene Tierney's husband's cigars might be the entering wedge...
...Sunday Punch," the other feature, does little to relieve the letdown of the first film. It's the success story of a house full of would-be Gene Tunneys and Billy Conns, who are spurred on by the charm of comely Jean Rogers, an unconvincing gold digger and torch singer. William Lundigan and Dan Dailey, Jr., work their way up together through the YMCA leagues into big time and finally battle it out, in the championship bout, for Rogers. Lundigan is KO'd, but gets the gal, who has in the meantime changed her ways. Even ring fans will find...
...Judy Garland, Gene Kelly, George Murphy; TIME...