Word: monica
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only after a thoroughly unproductive year at Santa Monica City College that he decided to jettison ambitions to become a doctor and impulsively enrolled in an acting course at the Pasadena Playhouse. After a sketch in which he played an old man, his instructor took him aside and said, "Dusty, it may take you a long time?ten or 15 years?but you are going to have a life in the theater." Recalls Hoffman, ruefully: "He was sure right about how long it would take...
Died. Vernon Duke, 69, Russian-born songwriter who scored many Broadway and London musical hits (Cabin in the Sky, Two Little Girls in Blue) with such well-remembered favorites as April in Paris, Autumn in New York and Taking a Chance on Love; of lung cancer; in Santa Monica, Calif...
Divorced. Sammy Davis Jr., 43, diminutive, jumping jack-of-all show business and one of the world's highest-paid Negro entertainers; by May Britt, 31, lissome Swedish actress, on grounds of mental cruelty; after eight years of marriage, three children, two of them adopted; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...Everybody remembers that Corbett Monica played Joey Bishop's agent in the Joey Bishop show, but whom did Mr. Monica replace in that role...
...Eleventh Hour), and his career encompassed nearly 40 films and TV shows in 21 years. Offscreen, he was one of Hollywood's most ardent Republicans, campaigned tirelessly for Fellow Actor George Murphy's election to the Senate and was himself elected to the Santa Monica city council...