Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...someone calls me up and asks me to do a picture. Four years are up and I suppose it's time . . . They've all been bad so far ... Let's face it. I've never been any good in pictures, but if [the studio] wants...
Lana Turner, just back from a four-month European honeymoon with third husband Bob Topping, telephoned her studio that she had "never been so relaxed and happy." She was going to have a baby (her second, Bob's third) "next April or May." The studio took a deep breath ("She was very obliging," admitted a spokesman. "She called as soon as she was halfway sure"), and started looking around for someone else to play Lana's next scheduled role: Madame Bovary...
Actor's Studio (Sun. 8:30 p.m., ABC Television). Première of Portrait of a Madonna by Tennessee Williams. Jessica Tandy plays the lead. Narrator: Marc Connelly...
Young Pancho, one of seven kids of a Hollywood studio painter, has been playing tennis since 1941, when his mother gave him a 51? racket for Christmas. School never interested him much ("If it was a warm day and the fellows said 'Let's go to the beach,' who was I to say no?"). Though Perry Jones, the Southern California tennis czar, looked askance, he quit high school in 1943 and then did a hitch in the Navy. He finally played his way back into Jones's good graces-and the tournament bids, expense money...
Cinemactor Robert Mitchum was indicted by a Los Angeles grand jury on two counts (possession of marijuana and conspiracy to violate the narcotic laws). Meanwhile, his studio (RKO) hastened to make hay. Pleasantly amazed at the rash of public sympathy and sentimentality over Mitchum's trouble, the studio planned an immediate release of Bob's latest movie (Rachel and the Stranger, co-starring Loretta Young, and presenting Mitchum as a frontier home-wrecker...