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...than 4,000 films in its library, is paying up to $180,000 a movie for computerized-color versions of such classsics as the 1942 musical Yankee Doodle Dandy, starring James Cagney, and the 1941 version of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, which featured Spencer Tracy, Ingrid Bergman and Lana Turner. Hal Roach Studios, which owns 35% of Colorization, expects to have 15 movies for sale or rental in video shops by next spring, including ten Laurel and Hardy features and the original, 1937 version of Topper, starring Gary Grant and Constance Bennett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Play It Again, This Time in Color | 10/8/1984 | See Source »

Across town another man might vicariously fulfill himself by stepping into Clark Gable's shoe prints on a Hollywood sidewalk, another woman might prove herself Lana Turner's equal in some way on the same boulevard. But these souls in the Coliseum had more action in their dreams: they had beaten the wind in the arena of the swift. Having achieved that, they would step back into the throng and go about their jobs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Olympics: Hooray for Hollywood | 8/6/1984 | See Source »

Charlie Chaplin and the Marx Brothers liked to get behind the counter and whip up their own milkshakes. Gloria Swanson often dropped by in a chauffeur-driven limousine, and celluloid myth has it that Lana Turner was discovered there (she was not). Last week, 51 years after it opened its doors and became a tinseltown landmark, Schwab's drugstore dimmed its neon sign on Sunset Boulevard for the last time. Citing financial pressure and what he called a "family dispute," Leon Schwab, 72, the brother of Founder Jack, decided it was better to close than sell. For its many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 7, 1983 | 11/7/1983 | See Source »

...searing affidavit, Kathleen swore that Artie had screamed at her, beaten her, come home "drunken, abusive, and belligerent." He had also tried out on her his favorite theory of domestic relations ("The only way to keep a woman in line-be a caveman"). "He boasted of having thrown Lana Turner [Mrs. Shaw No. 3] down a flight of stairs, and said that it improved their marriage considerably. He told me that he had kicked Ava Gardner [Mrs. Shaw No. 5] several times and that she had 'responded nobly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People 1982: A History of This Section | 10/5/1983 | See Source »

...More promising are such regular features as Pipeline, a takeoff of Nightline, which last week examined a prison that had gone condo, and Flick of the Night, which overdubs old film clips with irreverent irrelevancies. The bookings may also improve. Already taped are interviews with less overexposed celebs like Lana Turner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Video: And Now, Heeeeere's Alan! | 9/19/1983 | See Source »

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