Hollywood Beauty Contests Fail to Forge Hollywood Stars
A 1940s perspective notes that beauty pageants yield few screen contracts as casting favors talent and personality. It recalls Ann Sheridan as a rare success from Paramount and cites multiple Miss America winners who gained little film work, underscoring Hollywood’s preference for Broadway routes over beauty alone.
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Ollywood
Hollywood
Ann Sheridan
Miss Sheridan
Paramount
del Cambre
Ann
Rosemary LaPlanche
Gail Patrick
Island of Lost Souls
Barbara Hale
Rockford
Ill
Chicago
RKO
Marie McDonald
New York State
Tommy Dorsey
Margaret Mohlin
Van Johnson Seeks Art Talent Enrolls in Beverly Hills School
Hollywood actor Van Johnson turns hobby into ambition by enrolling in a Beverly Hills art school after initial discouragement from amateur painting. He aims to become a proficient artist and improve his painting skills.
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van Johnson
Hollywood
Beverly Hills
Marx Brothers Still Mad About My Blonde Heaven
Erekine Johnson reviews the Marx Brothers film My Blonde Heaven with Harpo as the silent hero and Chico in a romance. The cast includes Ilona Massey Vera Ellen and Marion Hutton. plot rumors include an international smuggling ring and hidden jewels.
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Pear Wenn
NEA
Marx Brothers
Harpo
Groucho
Chico
Ilona Massey
Vera Ellen
Marion Hutton
Betty
Lester Cowan
Ilona
Record Reviews of Foster Songs and Classical Pieces
Nelson Eddy delivers a 17 song Foster album with Columbia four 12-inch records, praised for straightforward singing and strong supporting chorus and orchestra. Rudolf Serkin piano piece with Eugene Ormandy conductor receives high marks for artistry, fidelity, and balanced accompaniment. Other items include Boccherini and Bolzoni minuets with the Boston Pops under Arthur Fiedler, and Allan Jones in Kern and Kreisler selections with Ray Sinatra.
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Stephen Foster
Nelson Eddy
Robert Armbruster
Columbia
America
Supreme Melodist
Joe
Kentucky
Jeannie
Alice Fair
Suzanna
Dolly Day
Foster
Open Thy Lattice
Love
Jenny Une
Ned
Schumann
Rudolf Serkin
Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy
Boccherini
Bolzoni
Boston “Pops” Orchestra
Arthur Fiedler
Victor
Television Star Vaughn Taylor Embraces Low Rent Life
New York AP profile of Vaughn Taylor a busy television actor who lives with his wife in a Greenwich Village walk up. He jokes that television pays his rent though the rate is low earning about 125 dollars per show with long rehearsals and demanding studio heat.
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New York
Vaughn Taylor
Hollywood
Connecticut
Taylor
Greenwich Village
Dolores Pallet Shapes Radio City Music Hall Show
Dolores Pallet, musical adviser at Radio City Music Hall for nearly 20 years, oversees scores for the Rockettes and soloists, adapting music and guiding 600 performers. She trained in Milan and Paris, joined founder Russell Markert after a piano audition, and remains central to rehearsals and backstage operations.
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Dolores Pallet
Radio City Music Hall
Dorothy Dean
York
Miss Pallet
Music Hall
Dolores
Milan
Paris
Russell Markert
The
Rockettes
Markert
Radio City
Richard
Actors Run Afoul as LAPD Detains Two on Set
Hollywood report says actors Van Heflin and Barry Kroeger faced police trouble in downtown Los Angeles while filming Act of Violence. Heflin was arrested and kept off the set after a disheveled appearance. Kroeger, delayed by a carded license, was taken to a patrol wagon before detectives confirmed his identity.
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Hollywood
Los Angeles
van Heflin
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
Barry Kroeger
Heflin
Nnemann
Cae Ae
Kroeger
New York
Old Olvera Street
Peatiannters
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Fox
Phil Silvers
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Warner Brothers
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Lake Charles
Jane Doe
Republic Studios
Ralph Edwards
Republic
Claire James
California
Busby Berkeley
Ray Dorsey
William Girard
Girard
Chicago News
Joan Crawford
Ginger Rogers
Ancelanowa
Dssey, Wlr
Andi
Peet Ayia
Lansbury Meniou-Ston
Metro-Geldwyn- Mayer and
Liberty Films
Veaaek
State OF the Union
Prolecad
Frank Capra
Late World News
Marion Blvd
Ce-Mar
Ce-Mar Acres
First Avenue
Cedar Rapids
Marion-Kenwood
MMARA
Lune
Ust
Iowa
Erekine Johnson
Ben Hecht
Ilona Chico
Sur
Ann Ronnell
Chico Marx
Record
Joseph H. Kitchin
Serkin
Jerome Kern
Fritz Kreisler
Allan Jones
Ray Sinatra
Kern
Roberta”. Jones
Boston
Northeastern University
Owen Davis, Jr
NBC Television
Shangri-La
Margo
Markett
Soder Sony
Percy Faith
Jane Froman
CBS This Afternoon
Faith
Miss Froman
Krebs
First Avenue SE
First Ave
Lynn Roberts
IGUST
Brabbit-Taylor
Hardman-Peck Instruments
Penzel-Mueller
Guntewe
ART Instruction Inc
Dept
4Th Street
Minneapolis
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