Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...headlines announced it. Tin-Plate Heir Henry J. ("Bob") Topping Jr. and Lana Turner, blonde and nubilissimous cinemactress, would be married as soon as he could get a divorce from Actress Arline Judge. From Hollywood, wires signed "Lana and Bob Topping" went out to 150 friends, inviting them to a big celebration at the swank Mocambo Club...
...including one three-year stretch with Bob Topping's older brother Dan (who has been married four times). Arline's other husbands: Cinema Director Wesley Ruggles, R.A.F. Captain James R. Addams* and Huckster Vincent Morgan Ryan, to whom she was still married when she met Bob in Hollywood and fell "plain mad nutsie in love...
Jimmy Durante, 54, went into a Hollywood hospital, where his condition was presently reported "good," after an operation for the removal of a tumor. He was off the air till...
Tyrone Power greeted the New Year in Mexico City as he did last year-but not with the same girl (Lana Turner was involved elsewhere-see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). This year it was Linda Christian, a widely traveled Hollywood starlet he had bumped into in Rome. After Mexico City, the handsome couple moved on to Acapulco...
Except for his good looks, which are considerably above average, Gregory Peck is an average young man who has made a fairly fast and dizzying jump to movie stardom. Since his arrival in Hollywood four years ago, he has carried a large part of the burden of an aggregate Hollywood investment of some $23 million, and has been instrumental in grossing a total of at least $50 million. With his ninth-and newest-picture, The Paradine Case (see below), he is in such demand that he has had to turn down starring roles in some 30 other pictures, most...