Word: orson
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...glamor with glamor. The Hollywood-for-Dewey Committee had nice legs, a pretty wit and good lungs : Ginger Rogers, Hedda Hopper, Rosalind Russell, Cecil B. de Mille, Anne Baxter, Leo Carrillo and Adolphe Menjou. So did the Hollywood Committee of New Dealers: Rita Hayworth, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles, Harpo Marx, Lana Turner, Walter Huston, Fanny Brice...
Emil Ludwig, portly, popular German refugee biographer (Napoleon, Beethoven), scandalized a large Los Angeles convocation of musicians and intellectuals. Ludwig, invited to pinch-hit for Orson Welles at the meeting (sponsored jointly by U.C.L.A. and the ultra-liberal Musicians Congress), had not been asked for advance copies of his speech on "The Function of Music in a Democracy." Said he: "We find that music and the arts are not necessarily characteristic of Democracy. In fact, the greatest music that has ever been composed was done so under tyrants. . . ." He mentioned Beethoven, Bach, Brahms, Liszt, Franck, Tchaikovsky, Schubert - all subjects...
...order to forestall panic effects of an Orson Welles-Martian nature, the Rose recordings are carefully introduced and Japanese tamperings with the facts of the news are spotted for listeners by KYA's news staff...
Rita Hayworth made it official that she was expecting a child in December, hoped that it would be a boy "just like his daddy-in fact, be another Orson Welles." Orson told her he wanted 17 children, but she said: "You know Orson-he always has to exaggerate a little. Three or four would be enough for me." To admirers in the 362nd Fighter Squadron Rita sent an autographed slip...
...Orson Welles, who is suspecting a child by Wife Rita Hayworth (her own last published suspicion: "I hope it's true, but I don't know"), had other paternal worries when ex-Wife Virginia Lederer sued for increased support of their six-year-old daughter, Christopher.* She asked for $350 instead of $133 a month, plus maintenance of a $71,000 life insurance policy and a $100,000 trust fund, finally settled for $900 cash-after talk of setting up a trust fund was called a "futile gesture," because the onetime "boy wonder" was some...