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...Loretta Young, who paid $8,500 down on a ten-room Hollywood house owned by Benjamin ("Bugsy") Siegel, longtime friend to bigtime gangsters, was sued by him for the balance of $85,000. She explained that the deal depended on Bugsy's eliminating all the house's "termites, fungus and dry rot." Her claim: "Siegel has refused to spend more than $250 for elimination of termites. It's going to cost a great deal more than that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Discoveries, Homebodies, French Footnotes | 9/18/1944 | See Source »

...idea of what women can do for the war and painful examples of what Hollywood, under the pressure of patriotism, can do to women. In the first, Hollywood vigorously shakes its own hand for letting some actresses go to shake a leg on the world battlefronts. In the second, Loretta Young, Geraldine Fitzgerald and Diana Barrymore pilot planes around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 3, 1944 | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

Miss Barrymore philanders with another WAF's husband; his wife remorsefully crashes her plane. Miss Fitzgerald, a neurotic, embarrasses her sister, Director Young, by making a hot landing (for publicity purposes). But she compensates for that by all but killing herself and another WAF in two other planes. Loretta Young comforts her warmly: "You tried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Apr. 3, 1944 | 4/3/1944 | See Source »

...Loretta Young, gazelle-eyed, 31-year-old cinemactress, vacationing at Palm Springs, confided to the press that she expected her first in the fall. Ex-wife of Cinemactor Grant Withers, wife of Lieut. Colonel Thomas Lewis, peacetime radio advertising man, she has an adopted daughter Judy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Mar. 13, 1944 | 3/13/1944 | See Source »

...Navy tanker in the Central Pacific: China, with Loretta Young. The hero blows up a mountain, snuffing out a Jap division, to the skepticism of the audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - MORALE: Better Movies Overseas? | 3/6/1944 | See Source »

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