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From the first days of the talking movie, the cry of Hollywood celebrities in distress has been: "Get me Giesler." For whether the charge was rape or murder or merely mental cruelty in a divorce case, Jerry Giesler was the best defense attorney in town. Last week the irreplaceable Giesler died, at 77, leaving behind him a saddened and nervous Hollywood...
...must to all model Hollywood couples, the living end came last week for restless Actor-Director José Ferrer, 49, and homebody Songstress Rosemary Clooney, 33. After bearing five little Ferrers in eight outwardly placid years of marriage, Rosie called on that grim reaper of cinematic matrimony, Lawyer Jerry Giesler, to file for divorce on grounds of extreme cruelty. "This will come as a surprise to all our friends," wept Rosie, "but it was no sudden decision on my part. Joe and I have had a difference of opinion as to a way of life, and for the children...
Stones in the Street. Last week, daily papers across the nation front-paged yet another art discovery, in Hollywood. Appropriately supercolossal, the story raised a mushroom cloud of dust and then rapidly evaporated. The announcement was made in the office of Hollywood's wide-screen Lawyer Jerry Giesler. There, Chicago Restorer Alexander Zlatoff-Mirsky announced that an Italian-born TV repairman named Alfonso Folio, now of Pasadena, had been living for years with $10 million in pictures under...
...same time warning that another year of neglect would ruin them forever-took them away, and restored them all with "chemical solvents" in three weeks. Since proper restoration of deteriorated paintings can require as much as a year apiece, Zlatoff-Mirsky's speed was astonishing. At Lawyer Giesler's press conference, he refused to show the actual pictures but passed photographs about. There were also pictures of the most happy Folio himself...
Lana Turner called Jerry Giesler, Hollywood's favorite lawyer. Cheryl Crane called Restaurateur Stephen Crane, her father, whom Lana divorced shortly after Cheryl's birth. Then Cheryl went quietly off to the Beverly Hills police station. Lana Turner went with her, later returned alone to the big colonial house with the pink bedroom, where her wild sobs could be heard by people on the lawn out front...