Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hedda Hopper, high-styled Hollywood gossip, had a breathless "exclusive" splashed all over Page 1 of the Los Angeles Times: Cinemadolescent Bonita Granville was engaged to a G.I. Next day Hedda had to take it all back: "Well, I've sure been had. ... It never occurred to me the caller wasn't Bonita. The girl who imitated her voice did a magnificent...
Patrice Munsel, 20-year-old Metropolitan Opera soprano, was the principal tea leaf in a teapot tempest of publicity just before she made her West Coast debut at Hollywood Bowl. The United Press reported the Met aswoon with shame because pictures had been published of her in a bra-suit. Manager Edward Johnson denied it, peered at the picture, purred, "She looks nice." Clucked Singer Munsel: "I thought it made me look a little bulky in spots...
Married. Julius ("Groucho") Marx, 54, gabbiest of the lady-ogling Marx Brothers; and Catherine Mavis Gorcey, 24, singing starlet and ex-wife of deadpan Dead End Kid Leo Gorcey; both for the second time; in Hollywood...
Married. Luise Rainer. 33, bang-browed, earnest-eyed actress, twice winner of Hollywood's top acting honors (The Great Ziegfeld, 1936, The Good Earth, 1937). lately occupied with USOverseas entertaining; and Robert Knittel. English-born editor (Creative Age Press); she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
Died. Alia Nazimova, 66. Russian-born actress who specialized in Ibsen (A Doll's House, Hedda Gabler) and Chekhov (The Cherry Orchard), onetime silent screen glamor girl (Salome), lately featured in character roles (Since You Went Away); of coronary thrombosis; in Hollywood...