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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood's gaudy Trocadero restaurant, Redbook magazine gave a gaudy party to celebrate its selection of Bette Davis as 1939'$ outstanding film actress. More in evidence than Bette Davis were: 1) Actress Joan Bennett, with 2) her third husband, Producer Walter Wanger; 3) Actress Hedy Lamarr, with 4) her second husband-and Actress Bennett's second-Writer Gene Markey. A brash photographer, well aware that since Joan Bennett dyed her hair the color of Hedy Lamarr's (brown) they look like a sister act, asked the Wangers and the Markeys to pose together. The Wangers grabbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 29, 1940 | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...Hollywood hospital lay John Marion Fox, Joan Bennett's thrice-married first husband. After she had the name of their daughter Diana changed from Fox to Markey, Playboy Fox became despondent. Lately he had been running an Oriental art bazaar. When he heard that Joan had married Walter Wanger, John Fox gulped a handful of sleeping tablets, called an ambulance, babbled to attendants: "I can't bear the thought of Diana's being brought up by another man. I want to sleep." Told that physicians had pulled him through at Actress Bennett's expense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 29, 1940 | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...nothing but its title in common with Author Julian Duguid's brutally vivid account of physical torments in the Bolivian jungles. The picture dramatizes the dangers run by a group of treasure seekers trapped in a fetid South American jungle between a tribe of head-hunting Indians and Joan Bennett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 29, 1940 | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...Married. Joan Bennett Fox Markey, 29, veteran (since 1929) brunette (since 1938) cinemactress; and her boss, Producer Walter Wanger (Algiers, Blockade), 45; she for the third time, he for the second; in Phoenix. Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

William Gargan talks and looks Joe Turp, makes the film an authentic piece of Brooklyn regionalism. Ann Sothern rattles Ethel Turp's tongue and one little brain cell in Joan Blondell style. Walter Brennan somehow manages to be touching instead of foolish, as the lifelong bachelor devoted to the woman who married the other fellow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

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