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...clear last week) was just an ordinary guy from Connecticut 15 years ago, serving a long hitch in the Navy. One day he was laid up in the hospital in the Brooklyn Navy Yard, and right away he fell in love with his nurse. Girl by the name of Rhoda. Kind of fat girl, but nice, and it figured: he was fat; she was fat; they were happy...
Before a man could say "Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences," there was Ernie wearing a set of tails like the headwaiter at Romanoff's, up there on the stage getting an Oscar. But where was Rhoda? On Oscar night she was with him and gave him a big buss, but most of the time she was home. And home was a dumpy little house in Van Nuys, a neighborhood where not even an extra would want to live between pictures. Rhoda liked it there with all the other homebodies, and for a while Ernie liked...
Came the time when Ernie was on location in Arizona, shooting The Badlanders, and who should be playing opposite him but Katy Jurado, a very classy actress-no spring chicken, but. as they say, built. When she heard that Ernie and Rhoda had split, she came around, just neighborly like, to say she was sorry. "Waddayawanna do tonight." said Ernie, and they went out on the town...
...Angeles last week, Mrs. Rhoda Borgnine got a divorce from Ermes Effron Borgnine on grounds of mental cruelty. The settlement gave Rhoda $2,000 a month alimony, the custody of their six-year-old daughter, a $53,000 insurance policy on her ex-husband's life and the house in Van Nuys. In court she testified that Ernie used to fly into rages, tossed furniture, locked himself in his room for 24 hours. Later she added to reporters: "He did not change much after he made Marty. Just a little more self-confident, maybe. The consensus is that...
...Confidence. In Brixham, England, Mrs. Rhoda Clarke refused to pay a ?1 ($2.80) dog license, told a magistrate's court the things she was protesting: "H-bomb tests, German rearmament, the flouting of the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Human Rights, and British Government policy...