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...great head bulging beneath a grey wig, his outsize body draped in silk, Primo Camera took Hollywood Starlet Audrey Dalton by the hand and rolled his eyes for a soulful photograph. Camera, 44, the Italian giant (6 ft. 6½ in., 280 Ibs.) who was promoted all the way up to the world's heavyweight championship in the 1930s, had turned his acting talents to the movies after a moneymaking postwar wrestling career, is currently performing (but not starring) in Casanova's Big Night and Prince Valiant. To make things complete, he and his Italian wife have just...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Sep. 7, 1953 | 9/7/1953 | See Source »

...Lancaster says reverently that Shirley is "a nugget, a diamond, a pot of gold. She's Babe Ruth. She's Mickey Mantle. It's a nice note for this town that a woman like Shirley can come in and by sheer personality bowl the place over." Starlet Terry Moore was breathlessly thrilled: "Shirley is so lovable you want to throw your arms about her like an old shoe...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Trouper | 8/10/1953 | See Source »

Married. John Barrymore Jr., 20, son of the late "Great Profile" and onetime Cinemactress Dolores Costello, now himself a fledgling cinemactor (The Big Night, High Lonesome); and Cara Williams, 25, Hollywood starlet; he for the first time, she for the second; after eloping to Las Vegas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 5, 1953 | 1/5/1953 | See Source »

Last week the milking of Hazel was a notable event. With a redheaded young movie starlet named Joan Taylor (Queen of the Dairy Association) draped around her neck, and a national broadcasting company microphone recording the milking machine's gurgle, Hazel became the new champion milk cow of the world. She passed the record of 267,304 lbs. set by Ionia Ormsby Queen on Aug. 22, 1947. Hazel's lifetime production is worth more than $29,000, would fill nine tank trucks and run Whittier's dairy plant for 32 days...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AGRICULTURE: Queen of the Cows | 8/18/1952 | See Source »

Divorced. Joe Pasternak, 50, Hungarian-born movie producer (Three Smart Girls, The Great Caruso); by onetime Movie Starlet Dorothy Hallenbeck (Dorothy Darrell), 31, who charged extreme mental cruelty, e.g., he criticized her before her friends; after ten years of marriage, three children; in Burbank, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 18, 1952 | 2/18/1952 | See Source »

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