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...Paramount redeemed the heavy loss suffered by William Wyler's The Heiress, a big critical success, with the receipts from Cecil B. DeMille's spectacularly profitable Samson and Delilah. "It would appear as if what the industry needs is more Victor Matures (not to mention DeMilles) rather than more mature pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: How Not to Go Broke | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

Landing at Paris' Orly field after a sleepless flight from New York, ailing Heiress Barbara Hutton, 38, was dismayed to find the press on hand: "Oh, why can't you leave me alone? Why are you always after me? This doesn't happen even in America . . . I feel like I'm going to faint . . . Why doesn't somebody do something? Why doesn't somebody get me a chair...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 18, 1951 | 6/18/1951 | See Source »

Married. Elliott Roosevelt, 40, successful dabbler in radio and writing ; and Mrs. Minnewa Bell Ross, 39, California heiress (oil, real estate); both for the fourth time; at Miami Beach...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Mar. 26, 1951 | 3/26/1951 | See Source »

...Cuernavaca, Mexico, Dime-Store Heiress Barbara Mutton, 38, filed papers to divorce husband No. 4, Prince Igor Troubetzkoy. The prince hired a San Francisco lawyer to fight the case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Brickbats & Bouquets | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

Married. Crania Guinness, 39, British beer heiress, daughter of the late Lord Moyne; and Oswald Constantine John Phipps, fourth Marquess of Normanby, 38; in a suspenseful ceremony in Lythe, England. When the presiding Archbishop of York reached the point of asking if anyone had "just cause" for objection, 300 wedding guests were startled when a pale little man jumped up and cried, "Yes, I have, my Lord Archbishop." His Grace paused and looked up for an instant at Thomas Trueman, 45, who believes he has some claim to the bridegroom's Normanby title and estates. But the archbishop gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 19, 1951 | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

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