Word: hayworth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...along the Strip is a lugubrious lot of wealthy owners. Some are thoroughly respectable, but some are not. The Desert Inn is run by amiable Wilbur Clark, a hotelman with a large following, in partnership with a syndicate of erstwhile Cleveland racketeers. The luxurious Sands, scene of the recent Hayworth-Haymes extravaganza (TIME, Oct. 5), is owned by tiny, wizened Jake Friedman, who made his stake operating gambling casinos in Texas. The sprawling Flamingo was built by the late Bugsy Siegel before Bugsy met his untimely, slug-ridden end in Hollywood...
...Rita Hayworth, the fourth bride of Crooner Dick Haymes, was not quite right when she cried that her fourth groom was being "torn apart and crucified." Actually, like a sinewy Thanksgiving turkey, Dick was just being carved many ways. His second wife, Cinemactress Joanne Dru, collected $2,650 for overdue support of their three children, claimed that Dick owed her $29,087 more. Internal revenuers were grabbing half of Dick's salary for unpaid income taxes; his agent continued to get the customary 10% slice; his creditors were cut in for their regular 20%. Dick was reported...
...Upset by the gambling-house wedding of four-times-married Rita Hayworth and four-times-married Dick Haymes (TIME, Oct. 5), the Christian Century called for a law "to limit the number of marriages which could be contracted by persons whose previous unions had ended in divorce. Where draw the line?...The same principle could be applied as that which is used by several states in dealing with incorrigible criminals: regardless of the crime, the fourth conviction is for life...
Never in Hollywood history had there been such a sample of matrimony-by-pressagent. Although Actress Hayworth at first insisted that she wanted none of the "pomp and frumptiousness" of her wedding to Aly Khan, she meekly surrendered to the greater wisdom of Press-agent Al Freeman of the Sands Hotel. As soon as reporters arrived, he provided them with a mimeographed "Outline of Events - Hayworth-Haymes Wedding." Sample events: "Wednesday. 2 p.m. Haymes gets his divorce hearing. Pictures and comment available. 3 p.m. Rita and Dick to get marriage license at license bureau. Thursday n a.m. Marriage ceremony...
Married. Rita Hayworth, 33, cinemactress (Salome); and Dick Haymes, 35, Argentine-born Hollywood crooner (One Touch of Venus); both for the fourth time; in Las Vegas, Nev. (see PRESS...