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...hard-won freedom from studio dictates, she now freelances and chooses her roles with meticulous care (she has read and rejected over 100 stories this year). She has just finished The Heiress for Paramount. Her great ambition is to play Juliet on the stage (Max Reinhardt's suggestion for her). She is frankly delighted with The Snake Pit: "Thank God that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Shocker | 12/20/1948 | See Source »

Clift recently finished his third picture, William Wyler's The Heiress. Now he is committed to Liberty Films, a Paramount subsidiary, for three more (which must be directed by Wyler, Frank Capra or George Stevens). Meanwhile, he is free to accept offers from Broadway, where he is also in great demand. One offer is for Lillian Hellman's forthcoming dramatization of the best-selling The Naked and the Dead. Clift doesn't know whether he'll do it : he hasn't seen the script...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Oct. 11, 1948 | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

Born. To Henry Benjamin ("Hank") Greenberg, 37, the Detroit Tigers' onetime home-run king, now part owner and vice president of the Cleveland Indians, and Caral Gimbel Greenberg, 32, department store heiress: their second child, second son; in Manhattan. Name: Christopher. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Sep. 20, 1948 | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

...clients had money trouble, too. Last week, the U.S.'s best ballet company, Ballet Theatre, also called it quits for 1948. In its nine seasons, Ballet Theatre toured the U.S., produced brilliant and expensive new ballets. Most of the deficits had been made up by Director Lucia Chase (heiress of a carpet fortune), who also danced leading roles in the company. Her estimated loss so far: $2,000,000. Ballet Theatre would start up again perhaps next year, said Miss Chase, but only if someone else came forward with a little money...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: What, No Opera? | 8/16/1948 | See Source »

Married. Mary Ellin Berlin, 21, brunette daughter of Songwriter Irving Berlin and Postal Telegraph Heiress-Novelist Ellin Mackay (Lace Curtain) Berlin; and Dennis Sheedy Burden, 28, Newport and Manhattan socialite; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 12, 1948 | 7/12/1948 | See Source »

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