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...things turned out to make the Bennetts, like the Barrymores, a legendary family in the theatre. Barbara, second daughter, was the first to go into the movies, before she became a dancing partner of the late Maurice (Maurice Oscar Louis Mouvet). Now she is the wife of Radio Tenor Morton Downey, who last week became temporarily blind from exposing his eyes to a sunlamp. Joan, youngest daughter, married when she was 16, divorced at 18, now gets $2,000 a week from Fox (current picture: Hush Money). Constance, most spectacular of the three, has ash-blonde hair, big round eyes...
...much interested in the June 22 issue with a front-page picture of Morton Downey and the article giving his history. Everything you said about Morton Downey is true and more could be said but why refer to his father as a "day laborer"? It is true that he has an ordinary everyday job as driver of a fire engine in Wallingford. Conn, and that he has brought up a large family on a small income...
There are thousands of people who are interested in Morton Downey's singing because he gets for it $5.000 a night...
Married. Jeanne Bankhead, 30, sister of Cinemactress Tallulah Bankhead, daughter of Congressman William Brockman Bankhead; and Ennis Smith, 33, of Manhattan; at Rosarita Beach, Mexico. Five times a bride, she was twice the wife of Morton McMichael Hoyt, who achieved fame when he jumped off the S. S. Rochambeau into mid-Atlantic (TIME, July 30, 1928 et ante...
Practically forgotten when he returned to Manhattan after another London venture last autumn, Morton Downey owes his present affluence largely to Columbia's William S. Paley. Able Salesman Paley, eager to entice Camel advertising from the National Broadcasting Co., persuaded him to sing a sample program through a long-distance telephone to Winston-Salem, N. C., where it was relayed to Camel executives through a local station. It was an ideal episode for his recrudescent success story for Downey did his telephonic trial while his wife was undergoing a surgical operation...