Word: hollywoods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cast of thousands turned up at Forest Lawn for the funeral of one of Hollywood's best-loved ones, Jeanette MacDonald. At the gate gawked 1,500 extras, while the supporting players, in the Church of the Recessional, read like a photomontage of yesterday's film clips and more recent headlines. Irene Dunne, Mary Pickford and Nelson Eddy stood in the pews; Barry Goldwater and General Lauris Norstad (now president of Owens-Corning Fiberglas International) were pallbearers. But the star was Miss MacDonald. As her recorded voice sang Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life, a canary caged...
...bigger surprise is Italian Actress Lisi, an import whose dramatic talent graced two dozen European films before Hollywood discovered her smartly turned sense of humor. Speaking scant English, newly blonde and lacquered to the customary high gloss, she translates her U.S. movie debut into a triumph of personality that will probably establish a long-term policy of lend-Lisi. She is devastating to behold as a centerpiece, though she somehow makes hard-sell sex seem at least as classy as caviar. She is delightful to listen to when she explains with gestures the stunning miscarriage of justice by which...
Western in garb and still gaunt enough to wear his West Point trousers, Hurd loathes the cliches of Hollywood westerns. He is no complacent optimist, recalling the Wyethian admonition that life ends before man can exhaust it. "A painting should be a prolonged and haunting echo of human existence," he says. "I'm concerned about man the de-spoiler." Hurd would like future viewers to say of his patient, sensitive work, "Here is what the Southwest looked like in the 20th century." Like George Catlin's early sketches of the vanishing Indians or Thomas Moran's pioneer...
Died. Jeanette MacDonald, 57, Hollywood's reigning soprano in the 1930s and early '40s, who teamed with Nelson Eddy to make eight slight, sweet, surefire musicals (Naughty Marietta, Rose Marie), becoming one of MGM's biggest drawing cards, later embarking on a second, modestly successful career as a touring concert singer, all the while remaining happily married, since 1937, to Actor Gene Raymond; of a heart attack; in Houston...
...beauty, irrepressible wit and $5,000,000 worth of yeast from her second husband, Julius Fleischmann, so charmed the swains that Clark Gable, among others, proposed to her when she was well past 50 but was turned down as husband No. 4 because she could not countenance moving to Hollywood; after a succession of strokes; in West Palm Beach...