Word: screens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Biggest concentration of German power was thought to be in a 2,000,000-man army of defense. Frontier forces were known to be along the borders of Russia, Italy and the Balkans. More were gathered in troop pools behind a scouting screen on Europe's west coast, lest Britain attempt a nuisance invasion of her own to upset Axis plans...
Married. Glenda Farrell, 36, blonde stage and screen actress now starring in Separate Rooms; and Dr. Henry Ross, 39, West Point educated Manhattan surgeon; she for the second time; in Manhattan...
Lolly Parsons nearly fell out of her chair. On the preview screen before her, Orson Welles, the bearded boy, was playing Citizen Kane, a corrupt newspaper publisher, in a way that reminded Cinecolumnist Parsons irresistibly of her boss-William Randolph Hearst. The seed of suspicion had been deftly implanted in the Parsons mind a week before. She had not been included among Hollywood's journalistic elite (her rival Hedda Hopper, Timesman Douglas Churchill, Look's Jim Crow) who saw the initial preview of R. K. O.'s & Orson Welles's Citizen Kane...
Died. Joe Penner (real name: Joseph Pinter), 36, Hungarian-born radio, stage and screen comic who gained fame a few years ago by his inane radiululations ("Wanna buy a duck?" "You nasty man!"); of heart disease; in Philadelphia, where week ago he had assumed the leading role in the musical show Yokel...
Hollywood was interested from the beginning, and Owner Hepburn could write her own ticket. She demanded two leading male stars, an all-out production, $175,000 for the screen rights, $75,000 for her services as an actress. M. G. M. ponied up gladly after its bright young Producer-Writer Joseph Mankiewicz put together an acceptable trial script. It further offered that amiably stringy young man, James Stewart, plus Cary Grant, whose $137,500 fee was paid directly to British war relief...