Word: valles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Rudy Vallée, land-lubbing Coast Guard lieutenant (bandmaster), got ditched for the second time by his six-months wife, 19-year-old-Cinemaspirant Betty Jane Greer, who vowed, "This time I mean business." Said she of the thrice-married "Vagabond Lover": "Rudy is an incurable bachelor. He's just not meant to be married...
Crooner Rudy Vallée, who sneaked into the Navy for three months when he was 15, joined the Coast Guard in Long Beach as a bandmaster with a chief petty officer's rank...
...curtain of Du Barry Was a Lady in Manhattan, Americans at Work cornered Betty Grable's understudy, a blondy, Albertina Rasch alumna named Ruth Farm; and a tall, taffy-haired trouper named Ann Graham, from Birmingham, Ala. Ann, the chattier, said she had sung with Goodman and Vallée, aimed at musicomedy stardom and then marriage with a theatre-world mate. Said velvety Ann, discouraging any number of unseen stage-door Johnnies: "You know the average businessman can't afford to stay up as late...
...returning perennial was Rudy Vallée, who quit the air last September with the unique distinction of having been a top-ten favorite for nearly ten straight years (all for Standard Brands). Last fortnight Vallée returned for Sealtest dairy products with a completely revamped program, and a re-vitamined selling point: Vitalure, "abundant in good, fresh milk...
...Vallée's new show (Thursdays 9:30 to 10 p.m. E.S.T., NBC-Red) is a sort of historical tour de farce, with incidents of the dead past reconstructed to include Vallée, ex-Prize Fighter Slapsie Maxie Rosenbloom and guest players. Last week, for the Ides of March, Rudy was Caesar, Una Merkel Calpurnia, and Maxie one Slapsimus Maximus, a Caesarian stooge. In Rudy's Rome the WPA built the Appian Way, and Caesar avoided assassination by putting the Ides of March off till the vacated Thanksgiving date. Not Grade A to date, the show...