Word: weeks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whenever Hollywood's box office slips, as it did last month,* puzzled moviemen ponder such possible causes as the weather, the crops and the local bingo games. Last week a fledgling producer, Novelist Polan (There Goes Lona Henry) Banks, offered a fresher theory: Hollywood has been underestimating the power of a woman. Banks told the Motion Picture Herald...
When she is working, 27-year-old Judy Garland, who has been a Hollywood star for 13 years, gets almost twice as much salary as the President of the U.S. Last week Judy was finding her money harder & harder to earn...
This was the deadly sin, punishable by Hollywood's defender of the faith, Louella O. Parsons. Wrote Louella last week in her Hearst gossip column: "This is the first time I have ever publicly spanked Judy, but I can't understand her attitude after all that has been done...
...week's end, having made her peace with M-G-M and with L.O.P., Judy had managed to work off another four pounds in song & dance rehearsals, was plugging away at the last four pounds and hoping very hard to keep everybody happy...
Eugene Acevedo Granillo was only 20 years old, had no business hanging around a bar, and didn't know how to handle his liquor. For these missteps he paid last week with his life. Entering the 101 Café in Downey, a suburb of Los Angeles, he flashed a driver's license to prove he was 24. He ordered up a couple of beers while the jukebox was grinding out Jealous Heart, danced about, began fooling around the shuffleboard game. Then Granillo tossed a couple of heavy shuffleboard weights across the crowded room. Bartender Edgar Gray (at right...