Word: hurs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kids into superglamorous movie stars. He found Robert Taylor at Pomona College and Joan Crawford in a chorus line. His star system, soon copied by his competitors, developed Gilbert, Murray, Gable, Tracy, Garson, Garbo, Powell, Astaire and Turner, clustered them and others in such big-money films as Ben Hur, The Good Earth, Grand Hotel and Dinner at Eight. If need be, Mayer could alter his proclaimed moral standards to fit the freewheeling '20s and '30s, turned loose Gilbert and Garbo in some sizzling love scenes, and let Harlow's neckline find its natural level...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). The Magic Flute, with Amara Hur ley, Sullivan, Uppman, Hines...
Married. Francis X. (for,Xavier) Bushman, 73, great lover of silent films (Ben Hur, Graustark), who made' $6,000,000 in his heyday (1911-18); and Mrs. Iva Millicent Richardson, 53; he for the fourth time, she for the third; in Las Vegas...
...drive, hailed a motorcycle cop. When they arrived at the thicket ten minutes later, the man was gone. In the bushes, the cop found the body of Margaret Gallagher, a 50-year-old beauty-parlor operator. Her skull was crushed, her body half-stripped. Nearby lay her book, Ben-Hur. In it was a religious picture with an image of Christ on one side; on the other was printed "A Prayer for a Happy Death...
...Bridey Hammerschlaugen (Stan Freberg; Capitol). A parody of the well-publicized hypnotic journey into previous incarnations to search for Bridey Murphy. This Bridey declares she lives outside Rome in 200 A.D., and is an usherette at the Colosseum. And she has a hot tip: put a bundle on Ben Hur in the fifth...