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...into the passionate pursuit of two goals-turning out shows and making enemies. There is no reliable head-count of the showman's enemies, but Merrick has had 20 shows on Broadway since 1954, and 15 of them qualify as hits. No other producer, including Mike Todd, Flo Ziegfeld or the Shuberts, ever approached this record in a similar period of time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: The Hot Dice | 1/27/1961 | See Source »

publicity for everyone to think he was in love with all the girls." Flo got very upset about their publicity after they were married in a sudden dash to New Jersey following a Broadway matinee: "Mr. Ziegfeld was furious when he saw that the hanging of four men had pushed our wedding off the front pages." Why had Billie never joined her husband's girlie galas? "My legs were too fat. But he didn't discover that until we were married." France's favorite spinner of adult bedtime stories, Novelist Francoise Sagon, 24 and recently divorced, looked...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jul. 25, 1960 | 7/25/1960 | See Source »

Bright Boom. In the garish '20s of the black bottom and the Charleston, Gilda's shimmy seemed to sparkle with a special sheen. She danced in the Ziegfeld Follies and George White's Scandals. She worked with the big names: Will Rogers, Gallagher & Shean. She earned the reputation of being one of the highest paid performers in the world, and she could brag of having made $4,000,000 in only ten years on the stage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: Golden Girl | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

...Sterling, Colo, by consenting to appear at a high school dance; she sued Columbia Pictures for a million dollars, claiming that the movie Gilda was an invasion of her privacy (she settled out of court). There were also a couple of comeback attempts. In 1951 in Milwaukee, Florenz Ziegfeld's "Golden Girl" was packing them in once more; she even announced that she was getting gifts from anonymous gentlemen admirers. But now Gilda was somewhat more skeptical than she had been in the old high times. "I didn't know whether to accept the gifts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: Golden Girl | 1/4/1960 | See Source »

...caught the California eye. On weekends, happy Californians packed the place like an amusement park, a sort of Disneyland of death. Some came to see the statues or to inspect the graves of their favorite show people-Tom Mix, Jean Harlow, Carole Lombard, Irving Thalberg, Marie Dressier, Flo Ziegfeld are buried in Forest Lawn. Many found that the 100.000 shrubs provided plenty of quiet places to neck in. Eaton encouraged them all, and reached them all with the Forest Lawn message: "Everything at time of sorrow, in one sacred place, under one friendly management, with one convenient credit arrangement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Disneyland of Death | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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