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Marriage Revealed. Lena Horne, 32, sultry-voiced café au lait nightclub and cinema songstress (Words and Music); and Lennie Hayton, 42, onetime M-G-M music director; both for the second time; in Paris, in December...
...friends explained that Cinemactress Judy Garland, 29, in spite of making $5,600 a week and being yearned over by millions of fans, was an unhappy girl. She believed that she was ill-favored, unloved, and persecuted by her movie bosses (M-G-M). She was jittery after years of "bolts & jolts" (sleeping pills to calm you down, Benzedrine to pep you up). Last week, when Judy learned that her studio had suspended her again for repeated failure to show up for work, she locked herself in the bathroom, broke a water glass and scratched herself...
While most of the U.S. movie industry was prudently cutting production costs at home last week, its biggest studio was on a spending jag in Rome. Using $4,000,000 in blocked Italian lire and $1,000,000 in frozen sterling (for British actors), M-G-M began production on what promised to be the most colossal film spectacle of all time...
Besides eleven projected pictures to be distributed impartially among the better-publicized armed forces, Warner is saluting both the Chaplain Corps (Four Chaplains) and WACs on overseas duty (Force of Her Arms). M-G-M is planning to shoot a story about Japanese-American G.I.s in Italy (Go For Broke), and 20th Century-Fox is about to begin filming the exploits of the Navy's rubber-suited demolition swimmers (The Frog...
Father of the Bride (M-G-M). Hustled into the theaters before Heroine Elizabeth Taylor's real-life bridal bouquet had time to wilt, this adaptation of Edward Streeter's gently sardonic 1949 bestseller* has all it takes to send moviegoers hustling right in after it. In the expert hands of Scripters Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett, the story of an adoring parent's ordeal is still pointedly human, delightfully funny...