Word: hollywoodize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lana Turner called Jerry Giesler, Hollywood's favorite lawyer. Cheryl Crane called Restaurateur Stephen Crane, her father, whom Lana divorced shortly after Cheryl's birth. Then Cheryl went quietly off to the Beverly Hills police station. Lana Turner went with her, later returned alone to the big colonial house with the pink bedroom, where her wild sobs could be heard by people on the lawn out front...
...wrote Hollywood Gossipist Hedda Hopper five years ago about the former Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner, the former Mrs. Artie Shaw, the former MES. Stephen Crane (twice), the former Mrs. Bob Topping, the former Mrs. Lex ("Tarzan") Barker-better known to millions as Cinemactress Lana Turner. Lana Turner had a daughter, Cheryl, to whom she gave gifts, money, luxurious living, exclusive schooling-everything, in fact, except a normal upbringing...
...Easter from Ojai's Happy Valley School-only to find her mother, Actress Turner, in the midst of trying to discard her latest male doll. But in this case the doll was not too easy to throw away: he was hairily handsome Johnny Stompanato, 32, a bum-around-Hollywood whose main claim to fame was a record as a pal of six-bit Gangster Mickey Cohen. Johnny and Lana had traveled Europe together, spent two months in Mexico. But upon their return Lana began, as a Beverly Hills cop delicately put it last week, trying to "discourage his attendons...
Such teen-age adulation has brought Disk Jockey Clark offers to make a dozen movies. But to date, Clark's rugged round of rock 'n' roll for TV has left him no time for Hollywood. In fact, he is so busy rolling in the money as the Pied Piper of the teen-agers that when his wife Barbara and their year-old son move this summer into a new beach house that Clark's jack has built on the Maryland shore, he simply won't have time to join them...
Novelist Wilson's own spoils will be impressive. Prepublication orders totaling nearly 50,000 copies make A Summer Place an automatic bestseller. With serialization in McCall's ($100.000) and a Hollywood sale ($500,000 plus 25% of the profits), the book is as good a property as the oil wells Wilson bought with his earnings from The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. There is a touch of poetic justice about Sloan Wilson's success, for he used to be far more fascinated by business than by the writing game, once dreamed of making his fortune...