Word: hollywoodize
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...interfering father, ex-King Leopold III. But as he toured the U.S., there was a king-sized thaw. In Washington. Baudouin joked with newsmen; in Dallas, he danced until 2:30 in the morning beside a swimming pool, confided: "I have never had so much fun in my life." Hollywood was a chat with Gina Lollobrigida and lunch with Debbie Reynolds. In San Francisco's Chinatown, eating prawns and spareribs. Baudouin interestedly watched a pretty stripper named Coby Yee peel. Said a U.S. observer: "Nobody knows what bit him. But I figure he's just been shut...
Divorced by fourth wife Elaine last month in California, sawed-off (5 ft. 3 in.) Cinemugger Mickey (The Last Mile) Rooney, 38, whose matrimonial misadventures have set him back roughly $1,000,000 so far, sprang a few surprises that set even jaded old Hollywood buzzing. First off, Mickey casually let drop that he had divorced Elaine, by her leave, in Mexico last December. His fiancée-to-be, Barbara Thomason, 22, a sometime starlet, had gone along for the ride. Feeling free as an uncaged lovebird, Rooney married her on the spot. Then Mickey uncorked a real showstopper...
...Hollywood the U.S.'s No. 1 rocketeer, German-born Wernher von Braun, cast a scientific eye on Cinemactor Curt Jurgens, showed German-born JÜrgens a replica of the nose cone of the Army's Pioneer III lunar probe, which soared more than a third of the way to the moon last December. Then the pair chatted amiably about JÜrgens' role as Von Braun in a film biography to be titled / Aim at the Stars...
...Baileys lost all their money in 1939 producing a show that used Hollywood cheesecake to whet the Eastern appetite, quickly suffered an Occidental death. Interned by the Japanese during World War II, Bill, then in his mid-50s, put the years of imprisonment to good use: he learned to read and write, something he had never found time to accomplish before...
Gideon of Scotland Yard (John Ford; Columbia), directed by John (The Informer, Mister Roberts) Ford, a Hollywood veteran who has made more than 100 movies, is based on a detective story (Gideon's Day) by John Creasey, a 50-year-old Englishman who is one of the most prolific novelists alive.* Their combined skill has produced a fresh and frantic thriller that amusingly wraps up a day in the life of a London policeman...