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...dazzled her beyond description to watch the long ranks of limousines disgorge the great celebrities. There, with Actor George Hamilton, was Lynda Bird Johnson in an orange brocade thing with a mink hem, and a hair and makeup job courtesy of Hollywood's George Masters. And there was Lana Turner in a $2,000 number described as beaded chiffon, and Shelley Winters in a black sheath with organza Quaker collar and a rented diamond necklace-which somehow got misplaced for a while backstage, provoking from Shelley yet another hysterical Academy Award performance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hollywood: Ticky-Tack | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

...younger days, Hughes actually seemed to seek publicity. The handsome heir to an oil-drilling-equipment fortune, he bought his way into the movie industry, produced Hell's Angels and Scarface, discovered Jean Harlow, personally designed the brassiere that made Jane Russell famous. He was a friend to Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Katharine Hepburn. Then he steadily became more of a loner. He secretly married green-eyed Actress Jean Peters in 1957. Now they live in a French Regency chateau in Bel Air, surrounded by high walls, bodyguards and rumors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: The Eccentric | 4/15/1966 | See Source »

...Married. Lana Turner, 44, still well-knit Hollywood Sweater Girl (Love Has Many Faces); and Robert Eaton, 34, Hollywood businessman; he for the third time, she for the sixth (her others: Bandleader Artie Shaw, Restaurateur Stephen Crane, Tin Millionaire Bob Topping, Movie Tarzan Lex Barker, Rancher Fred May); in Arlington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 2, 1965 | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

...them they revealed has varied vastly with the times. In the forgotten '20s, bosoms were sometimes bared in flickering film orgies; in the '30s, Norma Shearer in the sheerest of slips was enough to make temperatures simmer. World War II G.I.s strained at the sight of Lana Turner in a sweater. Then came Marilyn Monroe's enamel-textured calendar shot and Brigitte Bardict's nudity-with-towel, and most barriers were down...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: It-Up to Date | 6/4/1965 | See Source »

...star of the picture, of course, it is Lana who suffers most. And at 44, Actress Turner looks precisely like a girl whose million-dollar assets have been frittered away on gaudy clothes and dime-novel escapades. So she goes out to a friend's hacienda, dolls up in traditional tienta costume, falls off her horse and gets gored by a young bull. Moments after they rush her to the hospital, her marriage is saved. Only Love is lost, but probably no one will notice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: A Terrible Place to Visit | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

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