Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Alan Mowbray, 72, British-born character actor whose career spanned some 300 films; of a heart disease; in Hollywood. It pained Mowbray to be typecast as the perfect butler, which he played in 1937's Tapper and only four other films. In fact, he was so much at home in such roles (the tax-tortured tailor in The Boys from Syracuse, 1940; the lacy interior decorator in Jackpot, 1950) that the late John Barrymore could call him "a worthy adversary...
Careers have been built on a lot less, but then Raquel started with a lot less. Daughter of a Bolivian engineer named Armand Tejada, Raquel moved to La Jolla, Calif., in 1944, when she was two. The proximity to Hollywood was not wasted on the skinny, ambitious child. At 15, she had a lead role in the local Mexican festival. After a little TV and some modeling, she decided, at 21, to make it in the movies...
...said, 'and tell me if that really is the kind of career you want.' " Raquel studied the book like a road map. "It was a tremendous help to me," she says, "because from it I learned what not to do. I made up my mind that Hollywood is not a place filled with sinister characters lurking in half-shadows waiting to seduce virgins. It's a place filled with hardheaded business people out to make money...
Raquel's kind of place, it turned out. Her third day on the Hollywood rounds she met Patrick Curtis, an ex-child actor turned pressagent. It was love (money?) at first sight. Recalls Raquel: "I saw him and he saw me and that kind of thing. I am a very impulsive lady." An earlier husband-a tuna fisherman-had been cut adrift by the time Curtis took over...
...Curtis home is a Hollywood classic: two stories, 3½ acres, a pool, a pool house and a steep, unplanted hillside. Also present: Curtis and the two children from her previous marriage, whom he has adopted. Inside the three-car garage sits Raquel's Silver Cloud Rolls-Royce with license plate RWC. "The Rolls-Royce is good for prestige," she feels. "And Patrick looks like a great manager when he's sitting in the back seat...