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...Hollywood firmament, a starlet is a heavenly body twinkling only fleetingly on the screen but readily visible in publicity stills. Once in a while an ambitious starlet rebels against this fate. Three years ago Barbara Bates did just that. A wartime pin-up favorite while on the Universal lot, Barbara moved over to Warners', where she got her first speaking parts; her dramatic aspirations thus encouraged, she balked at posing for any more leg-art pictures...
Last week, still thinking about the case of Barbara, Universal-International struck a blow for art (hip, thigh & bosom division). The studio's legal experts fashioned a new clause to go into all starlet contracts: for the first five years of her term, the starlet must yield to the company's right to make "reproductions of her physical likeness, leaving it to the discretion of publicity and advertising directors to determine what is a reasonable degree of exposure of her pulchritudinous assets . . ." As a sample of its discretion under the new charter, the studio pictured the assets...
Married. Mickey Rooney, 28, perennial cinemadolescent (the Hardy series) who recently graduated to grownup roles (Words and Music, Killer McCoy); and Martha Vickers, 24, Hollywood starlet (The Big Sleep); he for the third time, she for the second; in North Hollywood...
After seven weeks of marriage, Tyrone Power flew into London with his bride, former Starlet Linda Christian, who was quoted as burbling that the honeymoon was "just a dream" and that she was "just longing for a baby so I can call him Tyrone...
...majestic shadow of the Roman Forum . . . Brutus stabbed Julius Caesar . . . One hundred yards from the spot where Caesar fell, divorced Tyrone Power married a Hollywood starlet ... in the Church of Santa Francesca Romana" [TIME, Feb. 7]. Why drag Caesar into this Hollywood transaction? The Church of Santa Francesca Romana, built on the ancient Temple of Venus and Roma, stands at the east end of the Forum. Caesar fell in the theater of Pompey, which stood in the Campus Martius, well over a kilometer west...