Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...named "the most beautiful woman in America." Picker: publicity-wise Harry Conover, Manhattan model-peddler. Also named: 1) Cinemactress Maureen O'Hara, "the perfect-feature girl;" 2) Ingrid Bergman (who acts for David Selznick, who employs Miss Colby as adviser), "the prettiest woman on the screen...
...side of her nose to be photographed, but even in Hollywood her well-modeled face was never lovelier or more expressive. Visual beauty is the best thing about Portrait of Maria, which is the sort of picture that looks better in the lobby stills than it does on the screen. There are handsome shots of Lake Xochimilco and some well-photographed, well-directed crowd scenes. The picture's hero (Pedro Armendariz) is a good-looking, brooding peon, who appears to have a profound store of peasant wisdom; unfortunately, the sound track keeps contradicting that impression...
Married. Myrna Loy, 40, redheaded, pretty but jug-eared "perfect screen wife"; and Commodore (on terminal leave) Gene Markey, 50, cinema scenarist and producer, wartime member of Admiral William F. Halsey's staff; both for the third time; on Terminal Island, Calif. At ceremony's end, Gene pecked Myrna's cheek, she pecked Best Man Halsey's. Said the Markeys: "This time it will stick." Her former husbands: Producer Arthur Hornblow Jr., Advertising Executive John D. Hertz Jr. His former wives: Cinemactresses Joan Bennett, Hedy Lamarr...
Divorced. By Jascha Heifetz, 45, Russian-born violin virtuoso: Florence Vidor Heifetz, 44, retired silent-screen star; after 17 years of marriage, two children; in Santa Ana, Calif. Testimony highlight: she spoke disparagingly of Violinist Heifetz's musical ability...
Time and again we have seen highly successful comedies based solely on the old stage formula of combining amusing complications and witty wisecracks in a mad merry-go-round of people dashing on and off the scene. For some reason it doesn't work out so well on the screen...