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...Hollywood press has been good to me," says Lana Turner. "They have always crucified me with a smile." In the December issue of Woman's Home Companion, Lana (telling it to Cameron Shipp) tries to set her life story straight. But the saga still seems almost as painful as crucifixion by the press...
Shaw, whose hasty marriage record includes Lana Turner, Kathleen Winsor and Ava Gardner, announced that he was going to try a cooling-off period this time before going to the altar. Said he: "For the first time in my life, I'm engaged." And, he asked, what is wrong with trying marriage again? "Just because I intend to marry for the seventh time, you'd think I was guilty of something...
...children, "there is a current impression that the diaper service takes complete charge of children until they are toilet trained, and the television set takes over from there on in." Since she obviously has nothing to do, Groggle feels that his wife should pack the combined sex appeal "of Lana Turner, Merle Oberon, his mother in a tinted tintype at eighteen, the latest magazine cover girl, and Miss Rheingold...
...Imperium (M-G-M), Ezio (South Pacific) Pinza's first movie, was shelved until his second, Strictly Dishonorable, could introduce him to the screen (TIME, July 23). Now moviegoers can see why. The film shackles Pinza and Lana Turner to the story of an incognito King's fling with a nightclub cutie from the U.S.-a situation enfeebled by long service in Ruritanian farce and operetta. Basso Pinza sings three numbers predictably well; Actress Turner sings a couple predictably. But only the Technicolor looks good in Mr. Imperium...
...films move progressively each day from one time period to another. The 300 Phonevision subscribers had an initial choice of April Showers, a 1948 musical starring Jack Carson; Welcome Stranger, a 1947 Bing Crosby comedy, and 1948's Homecoming, with Clark Gable and Lana Turner. Explained McDonald: "It wouldn't be a real test if we had only the best. Our sole interest is to find out the public reaction to Phonevision...