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Born. To Tyrone Power III, 37, swashbuckling hero of Hollywood historical romances (Prince of Foxes, Blood and Sand), and his second wife, Linda Christian Power (real name: Blanca Rosa Welter), 27, retired starlet: their first child, a daughter. Name: Romina Francesca. Weight...
...conservative Republican-greeted his well-wishers like a matinee idol, which in tact he had once been. Before entering politics he had appeared in 18 movies, was Marlene Dietrich's leading man in a 1934 picture called The Scarlet Empress. Beside him stood his pretty, Italian-born wife, Francesca Braggiotti Lodge, onetime dancer, whose singing of Italian songs in Bridgeport's Italian quarter had helped her husband in his races for Congress...
...wife Gala, but he had given her a Raphaelesque pose, fixed her in a harshly geometrical composition and surrounded her with a Renaissance vocabulary of symbolic images. For example, the egg suspended from the scallop shell over her head was taken from a 15th Century Madonna by Piero della Francesca. The shell symbolized baptism, the egg, Resurrection...
...profligate (he once put in several tax-exempt years as Bolivia's ambassador to London). Cristina managed, however, to separate him from an even half-million dollars after a 1944 separation, won a court judgment for another $500,000 by proving some indiscretions with a brunette model named Francesca Simms in 1945. This irritated Antenor to the point of trying for a Paris divorce, but he soon discovered there would be considerable alimony involved. He wanted to try again in La Paz, where the judges knew him better, only to find that under existing Bolivian law he could...
...majestic shadow of the Roman Forum . . . Brutus stabbed Julius Caesar . . . One hundred yards from the spot where Caesar fell, divorced Tyrone Power married a Hollywood starlet ... in the Church of Santa Francesca Romana" [TIME, Feb. 7]. Why drag Caesar into this Hollywood transaction? The Church of Santa Francesca Romana, built on the ancient Temple of Venus and Roma, stands at the east end of the Forum. Caesar fell in the theater of Pompey, which stood in the Campus Martius, well over a kilometer west...