Word: tarzans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Rabbit's off-field capers also became a legend, even in baseball's rough and ready era. There was the time when the Boston police found Maranville and Jim Thorpe high in a treetop, yowling like banshees as they played Tarzan. There was the hot night in St. Louis when the Rabbit dived fully clothed into a fountain pool (though he always denied that he came gurgling to the surface with a goldfish clenched in his teeth). There was the time when he was playing in Brooklyn and staged a fake killing, complete with gunshot, that was daffy...
...Hollywood première, Lana Turner, whose fourth husband, Cinemactor Lex ("Tarzan") Barker, likes her as a brunette, looked happy as a turtledove, although their marriage, which took place in Italy, was all of 3½ months old. Just to prove that this match is forever, Lana and Lex were married again on Christmas Eve for the benefit of her mother, her attorney and her daughter Cheryl, 10, who had all missed the earlier ceremony...
Married. Lana Turner, 33, cinemactress (The Merry Widow); and Lex Barker, 34, Hollywood's tenth Tarzan of the Apes; he for the third time, she for the fifth (her previous marriages to Millionaire Playboy Bob Topping. Businessman Steven Crane-two marriages-Bandleader Artie Shaw, all ended in divorce); in Turin, Italy...
...Jungle Jim pictures, starring ex-Tarzan Johnny Weissmuller, and a chimpanzee named Tamba, are Sam's biggest grossers. Each picture costs about $300,000, brings in close to $1,000,000. Says Sam fondly: "I love that chimp. He's out there now learning new tricks for his next picture . . . I love animals anyway, because the audience loves them...
Divorced. By Arlene Dahl, 27, titian-haired cinemactress (The Outriders, Scene of the Crime): Lex Barker, 33, Hollywood's tenth "Tarzan," after charging that he called her "a hick from Minnesota" because she refused a predinner cocktail; after 18 months of marriage, no children; in Hollywood...