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Born. To Ezio Pinza, 58, matinee-idol basso of the Metropolitan Opera, Broadway (South Pacific), and Hollywood, and second wife Doris Leak Pinza, 32, ex-dancer: their third child (his fourth), second daughter; in Santa Monica, Calif. Name: Gloria. Weight...
During his early years in Hollywood, anyone who had predicted that he would end up as the rootin'-tootin' idol of U.S. children would have been led instantly off to a headshrinker.* Boyd, an Ohio-born laborer's son, went to California in 1915 because he yearned for money, fame, pretty girls and fun. He was a husky, handsome, good-natured youth with wavy platinum hair, and he hoped the motion-picture business would provide all. It did. He married a Boston heiress, whom he met while toiling as the chauffeur of a for-hire car; when...
...mind which has caused Boyd to cease all personal appearances at which his "friends" are charged an admission. But part of it is shrewd business practice. Boyd has no illusions that his popularity can continue at its present rate and he hopes to convert Hoppy from a television idol into a brand name before the roof falls...
Handsome Lou, idol of Cleveland's bobby-soxers as well as its knowledgeable fans, had his biggest year in 1948, right after Bill Veeck tried to fire him. Batting a splendid .355 and driving in 106 runs, Lou led his Indians to their first pennant in 28 years and a world championship over the Boston Braves...
Died. Maurice Costello, 73, oldtime matinee idol, the movies' first high-salaried great lover, father of ex-Actresses Dolores (the third Mrs. John Barrymore) and Helene Costello; in Hollywood. Broke and jobless much of the time since World War I, he wound up as a radio bit-player. "It's better to be a has-been," he once said, "than a never...