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...hear her, and when they did they were appalled by her flat California diction. Well, she was from California. Maybe she didn't look California? Here's what Katherine De Mille said of her: "She has the world's most beautiful figure and a face like a Ming princess, and when she opens her mouth out comes Los Angeles Chinatown sing-sing girl and every syllable is a fresh shock." Was Anna May the first Valley girl...
...Ronald has seen "Princess Ling Moy - Celebrated Oriental Dancer" perform, and the vision has made him woozy. "I wish I could find a word to describe her," this calf-man effuses. "Exotic - that's the word! And she's intriguing, if you know what I mean." In a near-clinch, Ling Moy wonders if a Chinese woman can appeal to a British toff. When he begs her to "chuck everything and stay," she asks him, "If I stayed, would my hair ever become golden curls, and my skin ivory, like Ronald's?" But the lure of the exotic is hard...
DIED. VIRGINIA MAYO, 84, Hollywood blond of the 1940s and '50s who inspired the Sultan of Morocco to write her a fan letter in which he called her "tangible proof of the existence of God"; in Thousand Oaks, Calif. She played opposite stars from Bob Hope (The Princess and the Pirate) to James Cagney (White Heat) but won her greatest critical acclaim as Dana Andrews' cheating wife in the Oscar-winning World War II drama The Best Years of Our Lives...
...actress of the '40s and '50s who inspired the Sultan of Morocco to write her a fan letter calling her "tangible proof of the existence of God"; in Thousand Oaks, California. She started out as a chorus member in musicals and played opposite stars ranging from Bob Hope (The Princess and the Pirate) to James Cagney (White Heat). Her looks overshadowed her acting, but she won critical acclaim as Dana Andrews' cheating wife in William Wyler's Oscar-winning World War II drama, The Best Years of Our Lives...
...Naruhito's comments were unprecedented in severity and directness, and they set off a flurry of speculation about who was making Masako so miserable. (Which was only fueled by a later announcement by the Imperial Household Agency that the unhappy princess had been diagnosed with an "adjustment disorder.") The favorite target of the press was the agency, the secretive bureaucracy that micromanages the Japanese royals, which is allegedly concerned that the 41-year-old Masako has given birth only to a daughter, Princess Aiko, who cannot succeed to the throne. The agency has gone so far as to request Emperor...