Word: purdom
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Since she left her native Mexico 16 years ago, sometime Cinemactress Linda Christian, 33, has mastered most of the trick-or-treat rules of the international set. She racked up a lushly alimonied divorce from Tyrone Power, was the rumored reason for the divorce of British Actor Edmund Purdom. She collected some controversial jewelry from Milwaukee Playboy Robert Schlesinger, kissed the Marquis Alfonso de Portago goodbye before he raced his Ferrari off to death in last year's Mille Miglia in Italy. Linda learned a lot, but last week she proved she was still no match for Brazil...
Married. Edmund Purdom, 30, British-born actor of screen (The Egyptian) and TV; and Alicja Darr, 26, Polish-born blonde painter; he for the second time, she for the first; in Manhattan...
Divorced. Edmund Purdom, 29, wavy-haired, British-born cinemactor (The Egyptian); by Anita ("Tita") Purdom, 27; after four years of marriage, one of separation, two children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Rome's Ciampino airport, beaming Cinemactress Linda (The Happy Time) Christian welcomed her No. 1 boy friend, British Cinemactor Edmund (The Student Prince) Purdom, dreamily pinned a flower on his lapel when he flew in from Spain. Both Linda and Purdom are in the toils of divorce, she from Cinemactor Tyrone Power, formerly one of Purdom's closest pals. But Linda squelched tattle that a classic Hollywood swap is in the works. Purred she: "I hope to have a lasting affection for Edmund, but that's as far as it goes." Less than a month after...
Prodigal gets off winging as fun-loving Micah (Edmund Purdom) and sober-minded brother Joram (John Dehner) come galloping hell-for-leather down the main street of Joppa; with true Hollywood ingenuity, they are using stirrups a good 600 years before they were invented. Despite his Old Testament beard and striped gown, Micah leaves no doubt as to his Anglo-Saxon manliness. Before a moviegoer can say popcorn, he has unhorsed a villainous overseer and released from bondage a mistreated slave; later on, he triumphs in a religious disputation with some rascally heathens by a solid right...