Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, while Cafe Sportsman Henry J. ("Bob") Topping waited for wife Arline Judge to get her divorce, Lama Turner was busy buying her $30,000 trousseau. For this, her fourth wedding,* she would wear a princess-style gown in beige lace over champagne satin. The lingerie-some $5,000 worth-would include a dozen nightgowns, half of them fingertip length, in flowered chiffon...
Figure-Skater Barbara Ann Scott, having announced her willingness to turn pro, was getting black & blue from the money & things people were throwing at her. Total offers received thus far-from Hollywood, radio and advertisers-came to $150,000; she was now sorting them over, thinking. The City of Ottawa planned to give her back the canary-colored Buick it had given her a year ago last March and then taken back when Avery Brundage of the U.S. Olympic Association objected...
...current Judy is 16-year-old Barbara Whiting, pretty, pudgy kid sister of Songstress Margaret Whiting. Agent Barren Polan found her in a Hollywood record shop, where she was heard asking for some "really sincere" recordings. "I looked," said Polan, "and it was a perfect Junior Miss." It was, indeed. Barbara played a supporting role in the cinema version of Junior Miss, has grown up into an accept able lead. She wallows in a bubblegumbo of teen-talk ("Johnny had on a suede coat that just wouldn't quit!"), is really sincere about her role. She longs to become...
...will soon have a new cathedral, California-style. Its cost, announced last week, was unexpectedly modest ($1,100,000). Other features were characteristically impressive. Unique item: a 195-ft.-long painting of Calvary by Polish Artist Jan Styka, said to contain 5,000 figures. Location: the Hollywood-serving, super de luxe convertible graveyard, Forest Lawn Memorial-Park (where it will replace the "Tower of Legends," a landmark since 1924). Denomination: none...
Born. To Betty Hutton, 27, galvanic cinecomedienne, and Theodore Briskin, 30, Chicago cameramaker: their second child, second daughter; in Hollywood. Name: Barbara. Weight...