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Hollywood and New York blur as stars chase big breaks
A flurry of Hollywood notes details Yvonne DeCarlo’s Salome success at 20 after Paramount years of training, and Gary Cooper’s reappearing costume chops. The piece covers New York set expansions at Grant, RKO’s showboat school for The Amorous Ghost, Joan Crawford on Pan-Americana, Pat Kirkwood’s No Leave No Love with Van Johnson or Robert Walker, and various industry moves from Texas broadcasts to Esther Williams as a bullfighter star.
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Salome
Walter Wanger
Universal Picture
Yvonne DeCarlo
Paramount
Gary Cooper
Montana
Hollywood
Jones
Cooper
RKO
Joan Crawford
Phillip Terry
John Auer
Pat Kirkwood
Metro
California
England
van Johnson
Robert Walker
Odds Ann Hnds
Sean Blondel
Clark Gable
Creer Garson
Esther Williams
Marie MacDonald
Joan Mowery
Waukegan
Luerence Welk
Champrone
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