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Another client, a Radcliffe student of dubious mental powers, entered complaint against several national magazines for using her picture on their covers without her permission. As evidence, the near-sighted girl displayed photographs of Lana Turner and Jean Tierney in poses of semi nudity. The law students were hard pressed for authoritative legal precedence in the case, but again succeeded in satisfying the plaintive without resorting to court procedure...
...Lana Turner on romance: "I have dinner with a fellow a couple of times and I'm a home-breaker...
...this case, it's judge meets girl. Spencer Tracy, in the title role, is a judge in Grand Republic, Minnesota, who falls in love with a girl from across the tracks. Their marriage beings to fall apart after their baby is born dead. The girl (Lana Turner) gets fed up with Grand Republic and Tracy's upperclass friends, and breaks with the judge because he won't live in New York. They are at last reunited, however, when Zachary Scott, a suave bachelor to whom she flees for consolation, explains that he really doesn't want her after...
...remarks at several points that divorces are all to frequent, and a few brief scenes are tossed in to show just how nasty' wealthy middle-aged couples can be to each other. MGM does not venture further than this. Instead, it presents a moderately dreary love story and allows Lana Turner to run wild. She wallops a home run in a softball game, gawks at a specimen of modern art in New York, loses her temper four times, and even leaps from a moving automobile. Through all of this, Spencer Tracy plows doggedly ahead. His scenes with a kitten--cats...
Other top Hollywood salaries: Director Leo McCarey ($355,426), Producer Walter Wanger ($282,899), Singer "'Dennis Morgan ($261,000), Barbara Stanwyck ($256,666), Lana Turner ($226,000). Actually, the Treasury report for the calendar year 1945, and the fiscal year ended in 1946, did not tell the whole income story. It listed only salaries paid by companies, and took no account of dividends, capital gains or the "collapsible corporations" which have earned many a Hollywoodian (and many a plain businessman) far more than his salary...