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...Lana Turner, just back from a much-publicized vacation with Café Sportsman Bob Topping, was suspended by MGM. Her sin: she had refused to play Dumas' seductive villainess, Milady de Winter, in The Three Musketeers. Nevertheless, grumbled the studio, she had drawn a $25,000 advance on her salary for the vacation. Gossipist Louella Parsons predicted that husky-voiced Lana would be back in harness in 24 hours; but 72 hours later she was still on vacation...
...headlines announced it. Tin-Plate Heir Henry J. ("Bob") Topping Jr. and Lana Turner, blonde and nubilissimous cinemactress, would be married as soon as he could get a divorce from Actress Arline Judge. From Hollywood, wires signed "Lana and Bob Topping" went out to 150 friends, inviting them to a big celebration at the swank Mocambo Club...
...Lana Turner, 27, has been married to Band Leader Artie Shaw and Actor Stephen Crane (married, annulled, remarried, divorced-one child). She had also been linked, as the columnists say, with Turhan Bey, George Huntington Hartford Jr., Victor Mature, Clark Gable, Tyrone Power and-just before she met Topping-a Yale man named Talbot...
Last week, from her Manhattan hotel suite, Arline announced that she would contest her husband's divorce. Bob, said Arline somewhat crossly, was using the Connecticut courts "as a tool to enable him to exchange one wife for another." Lana promptly backtracked. She could under no circumstances announce her engagement "to a man who is not free," she said...
Tyrone Power greeted the New Year in Mexico City as he did last year-but not with the same girl (Lana Turner was involved elsewhere-see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). This year it was Linda Christian, a widely traveled Hollywood starlet he had bumped into in Rome. After Mexico City, the handsome couple moved on to Acapulco...