Word: helene
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Women's tennis had been in the doldrums since 1941, when Alice Marble left the scene. Its perfectly commendable roster of entirely adequate players seemed unable to turn up anyone in the legendary tradition of May Sutton or Helen Wills. But a Forest Hills gallery last week stood up and cheered with new hope for a sturdy, rosy-cheeked girl who will not turn 17 until next week. Second youngest women's national singles champion on record,* Maureen ("Little Mo") Connolly clearly was a good notch above her tournament competition...
...after waiting two years to avoid publicity that might harm Bernadette, Jennifer Jones divorced him, leaving him to carry what the columnists called "the biggest torch in Hollywood." He emerged from the Menninger psychiatric clinic in 1948 "a new man." A few days before his death, he completed (with Helen Hayes) My Son John, perhaps his best picture...
...always had a taste for handsome women, and the year of his divorce he married Helen Wismer, a clergyman's daughter, Mount Holyoke graduate and the former editor of a string of pulp magazines. She expertly manages his business affairs and his home, and has helped him enormously in conquering his blindness. The Thurbers spend part of every winter and spring in Hot Springs, Va. and Bermuda. Summer and fall they live in their beautiful twelve-room, go-year-old house on 65 acres of land in West Cornwall, Conn...
...Cotton Blossom, and Actor Keel's impression of a well-born river gambler's courtliness and dash looks like self-conscious make-believe. Ava Gardner, if occasionally out of her dramatic depth, has no trouble looking her part as the sensuous Julie. But she half-whispers Helen Morgan's old numbers (Bill, Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man) in a small voice which, for all its amplification on the sound track, sounds as if it would not actually be audible across the show boat's footlights...
...Hollywood Story (Universal-International) is a very poor man's Sunset Boulevard. Like its predecessor it shows the Hollywood of the present poking into the Hollywood past, with the movie great at work and at play, and screen oldtimers (Francis X. Bushman, Helen Gibson, William Farnum) as they look today. But the new movie is a formula whodunit without benefit of suspense, characterization, or anything else except some superficial Hollywood atmosphere...