Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...record of a marriage performed in New York in 1955. They also found that as a teenager. Suzy had married, and then in 1953 got a divorce. Relenting last week, unlucky Pierre confessed that it was all true, declared that he and Suzy had been advised by a Hollywood press-agent to keep their marriage secret because there is something more glamorous about a Hollywood star who is single. "I am a Frenchman," Pierre said superfluously, "and I have difficulty understanding how this should...
...week's end Suzy and Pierre were relieved that the pretense was gone. But Hollywood was dumbstruck. Now, a lot of folks wondered whether it really would be right for the happy married couple to continue sharing the same apartment. People talk...
...consistent winner on the playing fields of Hollywood, where he dazzled Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kim Novak and Joan Collins with chinchilla, Mercedes-Benz convertibles and diamond bracelets, Lieut. General Rafael ("Ramfis") Trujillo Jr., 29, lost a somewhat less entrancing war in Kansas. From the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, which Ramfis attended in between nightclub-commando exercises, came the word: the young general "did not successfully complete the course." Lest Ramfis lose himself in remorse, kindly Uncle Héctor Trujillo, figurehead President of the Dominican Republic, provided a nice nongraduation present: appointment...
Never too busy to slip a verbal dirk into some offending slab of Americana, TV Playwright Paddy Chayefsky bared his latest bodkin in London: "I don't know what Hollywood stands for, but if it stands for current values I am dead against it. American values are all wrong -the pursuit of security and comfort, with everyone plugging away to be as ordinary as possible. It's like Rome. I can hear the clanking of the barbarians at the gates...
There's Always a Price Tag (Inter-mondia Films; Rank) is a tasty example of how the French can cook up something out of nothing. This picture contains no more than the usual ingredients of the standard Hollywood thriller-it is based on a mystery novel by James Hadley Chase-but Director Denys de la Patellière has prepared it to the king's taste. He tells the story of a wealthy drunk (Peter Van Eyck) who one day informs the greedy salope (Michele Morgan) to whom he is married that he is going to commit suicide...