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...some 3,000 of his friends and fans showed up at a Beverly Hills church 20 miles away, where a memorial service was held for one of the few who ever beat Hollywood at its own game of all-cards-wild. Winning affection with a snarl, ever brushing off moviedom's hordes of phonies with the back of one hand, in the other eternally clutching a tumbler of Scotch, Bogart had won wide respect by managing, on screen or off, to be perversely ingratiating Humphrey Bogart. With Bogie's ashes in an urn was placed a tiny gold...
This week, as Hollywood's trade talk has long prophesied, 20th Century-Fox's Production Boss Darryl F. Zanuck, one of moviedom's best-preserved (53) boy wonders, stepped out for what was billed as a four-month lunch. Announced Fox's President Spyros P. Skouras: "It is contemplated that the details of an agreement for an independent production unit to be headed by Mr. Zanuck will be worked out between him and the company...
...moviedom's topflight fashion plates, spry Boulevardier Adolphe Menjou, 65, happy veteran of more than 21 years of marriage to Verree Teasdale Menjou, paid tribute to the sartorial keystone of the marital arch. Suavely twirling his waxy mustache, Cinemactor Menjou advised: "If men would pay more attention to appearances, there would be fewer divorces. When a man goes around in a baggy, ill-fitting suit, looking something like a fugitive from the Bowery, it's no wonder that his wife loses interest in him [and] the tinsel starts to wear off the romance." Some of his helpful hints...
Hollywood last week used television to introduce to 31 million viewers its newest, and possibly funniest, comedy team: Irene Dunne and Louella Parsons. Actress Dunne and Columnist Parsons were supposed to have only bit parts in the 1½-hour program devoted to nominations for moviedom's treasured Oscars-but they stole the show. Broadcasting from the Cocoanut Grove, Irene Dunne's performance as straight man was one that even Dean Martin could envy. As for Lolly Parsons, at one moment she was tossing off her lines with all the raffish assurance of Tugboat Annie; the next...
...20th Century-Fox) and brother George (now president of United Artists Theater Circuit). The brothers bought a nickelodeon in St. Louis in 1914, with smart showmanship and incredible energy parlayed it into a coast-to-coast theater chain by the 1930s, became one of the most potent forces in moviedom. The triumvirate's closely linked fortunes (they even pooled their incomes, drawing what they needed from a common fund) were partially severed in 1952 when 20th Century-Fox and the Skouras theater empire were divorced in a federal antitrust action. The promotional genius of the trio and for several...