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...oldest sister, Beatrice, was married to a New York photographer named Larry Tarr, and when17-year-old Ava came visiting in 1940, he was fascinated by his sister-in-law, shot dozens of pictures of her. Enter the agent of fate, one Barney Duhan, then a clerk in Loew's New York legal department. One day Duhan's eyes were arrested by the picture of a girl in Photographer Tarr's show window. "It was the face of the kind of girl you want to marry," recalls Duhan. "It was vibrant. I mean vibrant...
...star system and one of Hollywood's production giants, was getting ready to resign from the studio he had helped to found 27 years ago. It was no secret that Production Boss Dore Schary's cost-cutting regime was just what the big brass at Loew's, Inc. (MGM's parent company) wanted, that Mayer was becoming a stranger in his own house. Last week the Hollywood Reporter's Bill Feeder tried an old newsman's stunt. He telephoned Mayer to express his concern over the expected departure and Mayer admitted that...
After crowning as "The Tennessee Waltz Queen" Singer Patti Page (whose recording of the song has found more than 2,500,000 buyers), Tennessee's Governor Gordon Browning stepped on stage at Loew's State in Memphis to join her in a duet which won the heart of the governor's harshest critic in another field: Memphis Boss Ed Crump. "The governor," observed Crump, "is a much better singer than politician...
Even the theater owners, who have most to lose from Hollywood's romance with TV, were wooing the medium in their own way. When the television networks refused to pay $100,000 for the rights to this week's Louis-Savold fight, the Paramount, Loew's RKO and Fabian theater chains grabbed at the chance to pipe the heavyweight battle to their theater screens. Only stipulation: to safeguard the gate, the fight will not be shown in any New York theaters...
Teresa marks a creditable debut for its producer, Arthur M. Loew, president of Loew's International and son of the founder of Loew's Inc. (which owns M-G-M). For Pier Angeli (real name: Anna Maria Pierangeli), the picture means overnight stardom and a five-year M-G-M contract that will give her a chance to hold...