Word: misses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Taffy Look. Judge Dockweiler said very bluntly that if Leo tried to live with Miss Day in California she would be charged with bigamy. He also said that Miss Day would have to show cause why her interlocutory decree should not be set aside for having been obtained in bad faith. "Movie actresses," he added with some irrelevancy, "must serve as an example to young people...
...Miss Day, who is 26, Mormon-bred, and does not smoke or drink, had an appropriate answer for that one. "Judge, why do you crucify me?" she asked. "Don't you want me to be happy?" The judge looked stern. "We did it on the spur of the moment," seconded 39-year-old Leo, hopefully. But Judge Dockweiler, apparently, had never seen the Dodgers play...
...While Miss Day's attorneys prepared her case, and Leo moved into a hotel, Laraine began work on a new picture for RKO. Leo followed her to the set. Between takes, they played gin rummy or held hands. When she was called to the camera, the look between Laraine and Leo stretched like buttered taffy. "I'll be waiting, sweetheart," said Leo, somewhat in the manner of a wife seeing her husband off to jail...
...shocking tale. On the street the night before, said she, three strange men "appeared out of nowhere" and gave her a working-over. "So you would go to a nightclub?" cried one, and belted her in the forehead. (She had not been to any nightclubs, said red-haired Miss Sothern.) The other two walloped her on the crown, booted her from behind, chucked her into a doorway. Miss Sothern declared she didn't know what it was all about. As soon as she reached her hotel, she telephoned her estranged husband in Manhattan, who said he didn...
Married. Dean Jagger, 42, cinemactor (Brigham Young, Sister Kenny); and Gloria Ling, 24, secretary to FORTUNE'S executive editor; he for the second time, she for the first; after a Santa Monica, Calif, marriage bureau denied them a license because of Miss Ling's Chinese father (California law prohibits white-Mongolian marriages), in Albuquerque...