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Ziegfeld Girl (Metro -Goldwyn-Mayer) is a prodigally star-crammed, $2,000,000 exposition of how the late Florenz Ziegfeld's leggy ladies won their Zs. It is also the final glorification of Lana (The Ramparts We Watch) Turner. Henceforth the eupeptic starlet is scheduled to shroud her most publicized charms in the toga of a dramatic actress...
...Ziegfeld Girl those charms are seldom out of the camera's eye. They get Sheila Regan (Lana) into a pack of trouble. The Great Ziegfeld himself, who never appears in the picture, started it. Out spotting fresh talent for his new show, he found Sheila running an elevator. When his agent (Edward Everett Horton) arrives to tell her she is to be glorified, she is too stunned to speak. Her truck-driver boy friend (James Stewart) has to supply her address, telephone number. Told when and where to report for rehearsals, Sheila still can't answer. Says...
Your favorite jazz clarinetist must be either Benny Goodman or Artie Shaw, and don't let anybody tell you different. After all, they're big-time band leaders. Benny is the King of Swing, as everyone knows, and Artie Shaw plays high notes and was married to Lana Turner. You have no other choice. Edmond Hall is a rather unassuming colored musician who has been playing around for some time now, with a lot of bands you hear uptown, like Claude Hopkins and Billy Hioks. These days Hall is working with Red Allen's band down at Cafe Society...
Married. Abdicatedt† "King of Swing" Artie Shaw, 30; and film Starlet Lana Turner, 20 (he for the third time, she for the first); at 4 a.m., in Las Vegas, Nev. Surprised were Los Angeles Attorney Gregson Bautzer, who was engaged to Starlet Turner and Musicomedienne Betty Grable. who was gossiped to be waiting for her divorce from Jackie Coogan to marry Artie Shaw. Said she: "It must have come on him very suddenly...
...following is quoted from an AP dispatch of several days ago: "Shaw's marriage to Lana Turner last night had all Hollywood baffled . . . They reportedly had not addressed a civil word to each other throughout the filming of their recent picture . . . Lana Turner, who has been engaged for three years to a Hollywood script writer, notified her "flance" of her marriage to Shaw by telephone . . . after the ceremony. She said, 'While on our way to a party we started discussing marriage, and decided we wanted to get married...