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...American Beauties." Her theatrical ambitions were doubtless enhanced by her heavy beau of that time, Movie Actor Victor Mature, who was stationed in Boston in the Coast Guard. In 1944, when she was 24, Lee Shubert gave her a job as show girl in the Broadway revival of the Ziegfeld Follies. One night at a party she met Darryl Zanuck, who arranged a screen test on the basis of which 20th Century-Fox signed her for a seven-year contract. Ceezee did not bowl over Hollywood. After nine months of coaching and study, but no screen credits, she went back...
...velvet gets shabby, it will look better." Intimacy & Nice Things. Another East Side co-op (i Sutton Place South) in which Jansen has had a hand belongs to Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, an heir to the Phipps steel money, and his wife Lucy ("C.Z."). Boston-born "C.Z." was a Ziegfeld girl and artist's model for Diego Rivera before she settled down as one of New York's more active society matrons. The Guests have homes in Palm Beach and Roslyn, L.I., and rent a "hunting box" in Virginia, have turned their Manhattan apartment into a showcase...
...Pont Show of the Week (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A TV biography of Broadway's Florenz Ziegfeld, with Joan Crawford narrating...
During the run of the Ziegfeld Follies of 1917, a man in his mid-50s kept reappearing in the audience night after night-always buying two tickets, one for himself, one for his hat-to stare at a blonde chorine named Marion Davies. He already had a wife, five sons, a gold mine, seven magazines, ten newspapers, more than a million acres of land-and now he wanted the chorine. Getting her was as easy for William Randolph Hearst as hailing a taxicab. Remarkably, she remained his mistress for 34 years...
...alumna of the Juilliard School of Music and the Ziegfeld Follies, Soprano Jane Pickens married millionaire Manhattan Investment Banker William C. Langley in 1954, gave up her TV show to juggle benefit balls and paint. Working in her Park Avenue apartment and at her Westbury, L.I., country home, she developed what one art authority called "an innocent eye." Wondered she: "Is that good or bad?" Last week, good or bad, the ex-songstress had her first one-woman show (with proceeds to cerebral-palsy research), sold 34 canvases on opening day to such prominent gallerygoers as Mrs. Laurance Rockefeller. Adele...