Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Franchot Tone, 63, longtime movie star whose off-camera tiffs sometimes overshadowed his considerable acting ability; of lung cancer; in Manhattan. Suave son of a wealthy industrialist, Tone moved quickly from lead roles on Broadway to Hollywood, where he made 53 films, including Mutiny on the Bounty and Advise and Consent. His personal life was littered with four broken marriages and several fights, one of which-against Bit Actor Tom Neal over the affections of Tone's third wife, Barbara Payton, in 1951 -left him with a battered face that required plastic surgery...
Good horror, like good art, depends on suggestion. The masters of horror are those who force the audience to use their own imaginations, to conjure their own terrors. (As the chestnut goes, Hollywood could never match radio for glamorous sets.) Freaks own director, Tod Browning, had just finished Dracula, where audiences never actually saw so much as a fang or a drop of blood...
...credit. Having proved with last year's hit, The Flying Nun, that audiences will sit still for anything that is sufficiently inane, the network now exploits its advantage with television's first series about a transvestite, The Ugliest Girl in Town. The story deals with a young Hollywood talent agent (Peter Kastner) who is mad for an English starlet. He works his way to London as a bewigged model and becomes the hottest mannequin since Twiggy. Kastner admits that at first he feared the show "might be offensive and in bad taste." After screening the pilot, he became...
Married. Leon Uris, 44, lion of the bestseller lists (Exodus, Topaz)', and Marjorie Edwards, 25, jewelry designer from Philadelphia; he for the second time (he divorced his wife of 21 years in 1966); in Hollywood...
Born. To Cliff Robertson, 43, Hollywood hero, best known as J.F.K.'s look-alike in PT 109, and Dina Merrill, 42, sometime actress and daughter of Marjorie Merriweather Post: their first child, a daughter; in Manhattan...