Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, Starlet Martha Vickers (The Big Sleep) announced that she was wearing Mickey Rooney's engagement ring, but they "haven't made any definite plans for the wedding." Mickey's divorce from wife No. 2, Betty Jane Rase, "Miss Birmingham of 1944" (No. 1 was Ava Gardner), becomes final in May; Martha's divorce from Pressagent A. C. Lyles becomes final in September...
...like something out of Hollywood's own book...
Porter's life is probably one of the knottiest problems that ever tied up a Hollywood story conference. In 1946 Warner Bros, made a film "biography" of Porter called Night and Day (out of which Porter got nothing he could recognize except some of his best songs and $300,000). After hopefully combing through the Porter files, one of the writers assigned to work on the script complained: "There's no struggle-all along the line...
Married. Keenan Wynn, 32, cinema comic, son of stage and radio comic Ed Wynn; and Betty Jane Butler, 25, blonde Hollywood model; he for the second time (his first wife is now married to his best friend, Van Johnson); in Tijuana, Mexico...
...save his black sheep from the meat block and get it to the county fair might have become moderately tiresome, except for timely interruptions for ballad and cartoon sequences. Beulah Bondi, a Bible-quoting grandmother, and the late Harry Carey, as a kindly farmer, fit almost perfectly into the Hollywood concept of uppercrust hillbillydom...