Word: kaye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Blithe Spirit (Rex Harrison, Constance Cummings, Kay Hammond; TIME...
...months Manhattan theatergoers were titillated by the stage play. The film's plot is the same: British Novelist Charles Condomine (Rex Harrison) lives stylishly in the English countryside with a stylish wife (Constance Cummings) and is badgered by the unladylike ghost of his first wife (Kay Hammond). Producer Coward and Director David Lean have done little more than photograph Author Coward's play. In focusing the main attention on the brightly brittle script, they have overlooked a rule which Hollywood rarely forgets: to hold their customers, cameras have to keep on the go. Result: Blithe Spirit is surfeited...
...Kay Williams, curvilinear cinema pinup, was sued for $30,000 by her ex-husband, Argentine Playboy "Macoco" (Martin de Alzaga Unzuej. She had promised to remarry him, he said, once she got her mother settled in a home of her own; so he bought a house for mama and a trousseau for Kay. Then, the day after they made a date to set the date, he read in a newspaper that she had just married Sugar Heir Adolph B. Spreckels Jr. (TIME,. Sept. 17). Macoco explained his suit: "It's the principle. ... I do not like being made...
...Kay Kyser, 40, drawling, corny Professor of Musical Knowledge, just back from a tour of the South Pacific, told the press he was through with radio. Said he: "I'm just so doggone tired. All I want to do is go back to Rocky Mount, N.C., and sit around with my 83-year-old mother and spit and whittle." His sponsor, American Tobacco Co., tartly reminded him that his radio show still has 26 months to run, hinted at a suit for breach of contract if he tried to quit. The Professor decided...
Married. Adolph Bernard Spreckels Jr.,* 33, California playboy and sugar heir; and Kay Williams, 26, blonde Hollywood starlet; he for the fifth time, she for the second; in Wickenburg, Ariz...