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...voyage they've agreed to test their love by waiting six months before meeting again at the top of the Empire State Building ("the nearest thing to heaven"). The ending, which I'll just say involves painting and walking, makes this film all-time romantic soaper, and Kerr and Grant the ideal middle-aged lovers...
...stormed Hollywood at 25 in the soaper A Bill of Divorcement. All elbows, and eyes that raked the screen, Hepburn managed to upstage John Barrymore and was immediately a star. Her studio, RKO, put her straight to work: 14 films in the next six years. A year after Divorcement, she played the headstrong, stagestruck ingenue in Morning Glory and won her first Oscar...
...tamer of the wild Vanderhof clan in You Can't Take It with You and as Jefferson Smith, patron saint of patriotic lost causes, nurser of noble grudges, in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. David O. Selznick saw Stewart as a worthy partner for Carole Lombard in the intelligent soaper Made for Each Other. Somebody at Universal made him the unlikely western hero of Destry Rides Again, opposite an amused Marlene Dietrich. These moguls may have undervalued Stewart as an appealing young actor who wouldn't upstage the female lead. But they let him put his wares before the public...
With her sinewy shanks and thewy thighs, the new nurse in Pine Valley Hospital on ABC's daytime soaper All My Children could easily be a pro- athlete. She is: it's Czech-born Tennis Czarina Martina Navratilova-, 22, making her acting debut. As a nurse named Bolasni in episode No. 2,448, Navratilova is on-camera for exactly four seconds, time enough to walk past a couch and out of the picture. She only emotes during an off-camera stethoscopy by the show's heartthrob, Dr. Chuck Tyler (Richard Van Vleet). "They probably didn...
Died. Bill Vaughan, 61, author of the Kansas City Star "Starbeams" column, syndicated as "Senator Soaper Says"; of lung cancer; in Kansas City, Mo. For 31 years, Vaughan filled his daily columns with 13 pithy paragraphs. Sample: "People we agree with are calm and enthusiastic; everybody else is apathetic and hysterical...