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...celebrate its selection of Bette Davis as 1939'$ outstanding film actress. More in evidence than Bette Davis were: 1) Actress Joan Bennett, with 2) her third husband, Producer Walter Wanger; 3) Actress Hedy Lamarr, with 4) her second husband-and Actress Bennett's second-Writer Gene Markey. A brash photographer, well aware that since Joan Bennett dyed her hair the color of Hedy Lamarr's (brown) they look like a sister act, asked the Wangers and the Markeys to pose together. The Wangers grabbed their wraps, fled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 29, 1940 | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

...Hollywood hospital lay John Marion Fox, Joan Bennett's thrice-married first husband. After she had the name of their daughter Diana changed from Fox to Markey, Playboy Fox became despondent. Lately he had been running an Oriental art bazaar. When he heard that Joan had married Walter Wanger, John Fox gulped a handful of sleeping tablets, called an ambulance, babbled to attendants: "I can't bear the thought of Diana's being brought up by another man. I want to sleep." Told that physicians had pulled him through at Actress Bennett's expense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 29, 1940 | 1/29/1940 | See Source »

Married. Joan Bennett Fox Markey, 29, veteran (since 1929) brunette (since 1938) cinemactress; and her boss, Producer Walter Wanger (Algiers, Blockade), 45; she for the third time, he for the second; in Phoenix. Ariz...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 22, 1940 | 1/22/1940 | See Source »

Marriage revealed. Fritz Mandl, 39, Austrian munitions manufacturer and ex-Fascist bigwig, divorced husband of Hedy Kiesler Lamarr Mandl Markey (Ecstasy) ; and Herta Schneider, blonde onetime Austrian actress; place and time his secret...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 15, 1940 | 1/15/1940 | See Source »

...fully as creditably as John Barrymore, his cinema predecessor. The only serious bit of miscasting in The Hound of the Baskervilles is in the title role. The proper selection, obviously, would have been a calf-sized Norwegian elkhound; equipped with fright wig and false fangs. Instead, Associate Producer Gene Markey, perhaps in the delightful confusion attendant on his recent marriage to Hedy Lamarr, put his O.K. on a friendly old Great Dane named Chief, who, despite all his yelpings, cannot even make his bark seem worse than his bite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 3, 1939 | 4/3/1939 | See Source »

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