Word: cinemactress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hollywood, Cinemactress Judy Garland, after four years and one child, announced the breakup of her second marriage, to Director Vincente (The Clock) Minnelli (No. 1: Composer David Rose). Said she: "I'm very sorry, but it's true; we're happier apart...
Last week Moscow's Literary Gazette scrutinized Pocket Books, Inc.'s 25? U.S. edition of Tolstoy's Anna Karenina, declared it "a monstrous crime against world culture." To catch the newsstand trade, the American edition wore on the cover a colored photograph of Cinemactress Vivien Leigh (Anna)* and moony, mustached Cinemactor Kieron Moore (Vronsky), separated by a nose tip from a Hollywood embrace. To Communist eyes this appeared "as bright and shiny as a toilet soap advertisement." In cutting the bulky novel by approximately two-thirds, gritted the Literary Gazette, the "American barbarians" had reduced Tolstoy...
...weeks' leave in Miami, 1st Lieut. Glenn Davis, 24, onetime fast-stepping West Point football star, sidestepped questions about his reported engagement to Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor, 17. Just after the warm greeting, a conscientious photographer caught Elizabeth helping Glenn wipe away the traces of lipstick...
Born. To Diana Wanger Anderson, 21, eldest daughter of Cinemactress Joan Bennett, and John Hardy Anderson, 31, aircraft-parts manufacturer: their first child (and first grandchild for 39-year-old Joan Bennett), a daughter; in Los Angeles. Name: Amanda. Weight...
...haired Ballerina-Cinemactress Moira Shearer (The Red Shoes) hustled offstage after a concert in Edinburgh and paid her respects to Princess Elizabeth and the Duke of Edinburgh without stopping to change costume. She thus demonstrated beautifully that all curtseys to royalty should be executed by ballerinas in short ballet skirts...