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...Dorothy Lamour was refused entrance to the Glenn L. Martin plane plant at Middle River, Md., on the ground that a slow-up for ogling "might cost us half a bomber...
...been able to confound categorization by constantly challenging it. He grew up in Los Angeles and then a little farther south in Orange County, second child of teachers. His father was also something of a jokester (the name Jackson was partly inspired by a gag in a Crosby-Hope-Lamour Road excursion) and a reasonably hot Dixieland jazz player. Orange County, most renowned as the seat of Disneyland and a stronghold of the John Birch Society, got Browne going-away. He was playing local hoote-nannies by his late teens. Before he was 20, he was off to New York...
...Hope's Road to Hollywood, an NBC special set for this week, the comedian has dusted off a ton of old film clips from many of his more than 55 feature films, including the seven Road pictures he did with Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, 68. And so, to say "Thanks for the memories," Hope gathered a chorus of his past leading ladies. Lined up from left to right, Virginia Mayo, 62, Janis Paige, 60, Jill St. John, 42, Martha Raye, 66, Rosemary Clooney, 54, Lucille Ball, 71, Rhonda Fleming, 59, Lamour, Jane Russell, 61, Dina Merrill...
...first Oscar for dressing Olivia de Havilland as a spinster in The Heiress in 1949. Prim and priggish-looking in her bangs and tortoise-shell glasses, Head costumed actors for more than 1,000 movies and created some fashion trends, including a minor 1930s craze after she wrapped Dorothy Lamour in a sarong for Jungle Princess...
DIED. Jon Hall, 66, he-man actor who "was swept to stardom in The Hurricane, a 1937 spectacular that also helped launch Dorothy Lamour; of gunshot wounds that apparently were self-inflicted; in Sher man Oaks, Calif. A champion swimmer who grew up in Tahiti, Hall was best known for portraying loincloth-clad is landers and bare-chested sheiks (Arabian Nights...