Word: shearer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dozen years, husband of Hollywood's first Oscar-winning actress, Janet Gaynor (Seventh Heaven); of a stroke; in Hollywood. For more than a decade Adrian set the pace for women's fashions across the U.S. and even to Paris, made Jean Harlow, Katherine Hepburn and Norma Shearer look like haute couture models, put Greta Garbo in sequined slacks. Lynn Fontanne in a white organdy bow that started a national fad, released Joan Crawford from a movie prison in a little basic black dress that any right-thinking woman would have given her eyeteeth...
...NORMA SHEARER Beverly Hills, Calif...
Everything else in Hollywood may change, but after 23 years at work, Russell Birdwell, 55, remains the flashiest flack in the business-the man who happily takes credit for inventing Jane Russell, rescuing Norma Shearer from being treated like a superannuated widow, nearly succeeding in making Rumania's ex-King Carol popular. To launch unknown, 25-year-old Diane Hartman (Birdwell calls her 22) in that white silk rig, he has concocted some accompanying ad copy to the effect that Hollywood is empty of female glamour-except, of course, for Diane, who is described thus: "An untamed animal...
...decided to enter the lists with a candidate of their own. He was Ludovic Kennedy, 38, Eton and Oxford, lecturer on current affairs and latterly a widely known television commentator. Kennedy cut a wide swathe through Rochdale, helped mightily by a glamorous fellow campaigner, his ballerina wife Moira Shearer...
...prettiest campaigners in British politics, twinkle-toed Cinemorsel Moira (The Red Shoes) Shearer, made her maiden speech in Rochdale, England, was rewarded with such hearty applause that she predicted: "I'll be Prime Minister yet!" But Ballerina Shearer plugged for votes "as the candidate's wife and not as a political speaker." Her candidate: Writer and onetime TV Newscaster Ludovic Kennedy, standing for Parliament on the Liberal ticket...