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...Angeles, Presbyterian churchmen decided that at its next meeting the presbytery would look long and hard at the circumstances under which Presbyterian Minister Stewart P. MacLennan considered himself at liberty to marry thrice-divorced Cinemactress Lana Turner to thrice-divorced Tinplate Heir Henry J. ("Bob") Topping. The presbyteries of Buffalo-Niagara, N.Y. and New Brunswick, N.J.-plus many a minister-had publicly raised their eyebrows at the Presbyterian nuptials (held in the home of the Hollywood Reporter's W. R. Wilkerson) three days after veteran bridegroom Topping's divorce. Chapter 12, Section 10 of the Presbyterian Directory...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Vineyard, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

Homecoming (MGM) features Clark Gable as an army surgeon named Ulysses and Lana Turner as an army nurse called Snapshot. At first they don't like each other at all, but after she has helped pull on his rubber gloves a few times, they begin to feel different...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

...this is madness! Clark has a nice wife (Anne Baxter) in the States, and, by all that's Hollywood, he must go back to her. So Lana has to be disposed of finally-but not until her fans have seen plenty of Lana at the operating table, Lana at a Roman bath, Lana in the Battle of the Bulge, Lana on her deathbed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 10, 1948 | 5/10/1948 | See Source »

There are currently only eight "absolutely safe" cover girls: Ingrid Bergman, Rita Hayworth, Lana Turner, June Allyson, Betty Grable, Shirley Temple, June Haver and Esther Williams. A male star on the cover-some editors except Alan Ladd-can reduce newsstand sales (about 95% of the total) by as much...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Opinion Leaders | 4/12/1948 | See Source »

...Detroit police learned from Raymond W. Scott, a movie usher, why he had falsely reported that a time bomb was in the theater: for six weeks he had been looking at the same Lana Turner movie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Apr. 5, 1948 | 4/5/1948 | See Source »

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