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...Lana Turner was made moderately happy by U.N.'s Trygve Lie: he consented to be photographed with her-but then inquired: just who is Lana Turner? Explained Lie: "I haven't seen a movie in five years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, May 6, 1946 | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...Manhattan's red candy-striped Embassy Club, where it costs $2.50 for a hamburger, didn't understand a word he sang. But the Sinatra of France, handsome, flaxen-haired Charles Trenet, was a big hit, regardless. In the audience, and clapping hard, were such diverse celebrities as Lana Turner and Leon Henderson. The language of mugging, strutting and rolling the eyes was universal, as Maurice Chevalier discovered before him. After four encores. Fiance's No. i crooner bubbled in French: "In France they understand what I sing. Here they understand me." He took three showers "to calm...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: French Sinatra | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

There is nothing wrong with the story that wasn't wrong in the first place. The bum (John Garfield) still chances in at the roadside eatery, gets one good eyeful of the sex-starved wife (Lana Turner) of the lardy, trusting proprietor (Cecil Kellaway), who bought her underprivileged soul but not her overendowed body; and decides to settle down to serious work for a change...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 6, 1946 | 5/6/1946 | See Source »

...Lana Turner, curvaceous cinema-blonde, let go a couple of considered judgments after a Latin American tour. On Latins: they were "all they were supposed to be." On the Good Neighbor policy: "There should...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 18, 1946 | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

...given his first sizable Hollywood role in 1931 (The Easiest Way, with Constance Bennett). By 1932 he was ranked among the top ten U.S. money-making stars. During the next decade he played opposite such glittering screen favorites as Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner. By 1934 he had made It Happened One Night, with Claudette Colbert, and with the won the Academy award...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Feb. 11, 1946 | 2/11/1946 | See Source »

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