Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concert with the Los Angeles Symphony, discussing the scores for three new pictures, writing an arrangement for Ella Fitzgerald of a song he has written (called Yes), and rehearsing (in New York City) for an appearance with Benny Goodman on TV's Swing into Spring. In Hollywood he barely had time to drop in at the Pantages Theater on his thirtieth birthday to collect a glittering memento of his most recent success: an Oscar (see SHOW BUSINESS) for his scoring of the musical Gigi...
...hired, even before he graduated, by M-G-M to arrange the boogie-woogie pieces for Jose Iturbi's Holiday in Mexico. Lately, Previn has been feeling the burdens of age, sharpened by a desire to compose more serious music: "You can't write it in Hollywood. I've had ten years there, and I don't want to look back at myself on my 50th birthday and know I haven't tried." But he would never be happy, he confesses, cutting himself off entirely from Hollywood. There is far more to music. Composer Previn...
Born. To Joanne Woodward, 29, Hollywood's 1957 Oscar-winning "best actress" (Three Faces of Eve), and Paul Newman, 34, actor of stage (Sweet Bird of Youth) and screen (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof): their first child, a daughter (he has three children by an earlier marriage) ; in Manhattan. Name: Elinor Theresa...
Divorced. By Joan Caulfield, 36, blonde cinemactress (Dear Ruth) and sometime TV star (My Favorite Husband): Frank Ross, 54, Hollywood producer (The Robe); after nine years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Women drivers copped first place in two of the six classifications. Stunt Driver Patricia Jones drove her Dodge Coronet to victory in the Low Medium-Price Class; Hollywood Secretary Mary Hauser zipped her Chevrolet Biscayne into top honors in the Low-Price, 6-Cylinder Class. Only a broken tie rod and penalty for lost time while she repaired it kept Restaurant Owner Mary Davis of Hollywood, in a Plymouth Belvedere, from winning first place in a third class. (She placed second.) In 13 individual races, in which men and women raced against each other and drove identical makes and models...