Word: starlet
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...folk poetry. For Selznick he once flew "the entire town" of Zenda. Ont. (pop. 12) to Manhattan to attend the premiere of The Prisoner of Zenda. After the Bird set up his own office, he encouraged indignant cries of fraud by claiming that he had insured a client (Southern Starlet Margaret Tallichet) for $1,000,000 against the loss of her drawl. Smugly he was able to exhibit the policy; he had indeed insured Margaret-for one day, at the cost...
Loping off into the sunset-and temporary bachelorhood-square-jawed Cinemactor Guy Madison reckoned he'd soon be back on the ranch with his bride of four years, sometime Starlet Sheila Connolly, and the three little Madisons. "There is no thought of divorce," said he. "I think when a girl has had three babies in rapid succession, it leaves her a little tired and depressed...
Deus ex Machina. His wartime success got Jack a job in Hollywood shortly after he came home. RKO and later 20th Century-Fox put him under contract but rarely got around to putting him in front of a camera (he did once play opposite an unheard-of starlet named Marilyn Monroe). In 1947 he was hired as the summer replacement on NBC-Radio's Jack Benny Show. His fresh, natural style was a success, and in the fall American Tobacco put the Jack Paar Show on the air on ABC. It lasted until Christmas Eve. In his radio days...
Married. Charles Spencer Chaplin Jr., 33, cinemactor (High School Confidential); and Starlet Susan Magness, 22; in Winterhaven, Calif...
Married. Jack Webb, 37, petroform cinemactor (The D.I.), creator and star of radio and TV's Dragnet: and Jackie Loughery (rhymes with Crockery), 28, Flatbush-born Miss United States of 1952, now a TV and cinema starlet; she for the second time, he for the third (his first: Cinemactress-Songstress Julie [Cry Me a River] London); in Van Nuys, Calif...