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...shortest (three minutes) Hollywood divorce hearings on record. Barbara Stanwyck, 43, freed herself of Robert Taylor, 39. A judge dissolved their eleven-year-old marriage, long considered one of Hollywood's happiest, after Barbara testified that Taylor had enjoyed his freedom while making a movie in Italy and wanted "to continue his life without restrictions." She added: "I was very shocked . . . For several weeks I was under the care of my physician." ¶When a gossip columnist began commiserating with Linda Darnell, 27, who had just got her divorce from Cameraman Peverell Marley, 49 (TIME, Feb. 26), Linda cheerfully...
Separated "too much and too long" by "professional requirements" during their eleven years of marriage, Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor decided that a California divorce was the only way out. Feeling the same way, as of last week: Elizabeth Taylor, after seven months of marriage to Conrad ("Nick") Hilton Jr.; Betty Mutton and Ted Briskin, who had been trying again after several separations and a divorce...
Screen Directors' Playhouse (Thurs. 10 p.m., NBC). Barbara Stanwyck in The Lady Gambles...
Based on a novel by Niven (Duel in the Sun) Busch, the movie tells the story of a headstrong filly (Barbara Stanwyck) with a father fixation. The old man (the late Walter Huston) is a ripsnorting, tyrannical cattle baron who is so absolute a local sovereign that he even prints his own money. When Huston imports a Washington society matron (Judith Anderson) whom he plans to marry, Barbara works herself up to hurling a pair of scissors at the intruder's face. Banished for her impulsiveness, Barbara plots to wreck Huston and seize his domain. She recruits help from...
Though its overripe plot is unconvincing and full of coincidence, the movie delivers good performances, especially bv Actresses Cowl and Stanwyck and Villain Bettger...