Hollywood Kids and Stars Earn Busy Week In News
Virginia Vale reports youngster Orman Powell wearing sergeant stripes and a Purple Heart replica on the Riding High set with Dick Powell. Joan Crawford’s career rises as Bette Davis may concede ground. Danny Kaye to tour British Isles and Africa for USO. Susan Hayward’s roles expand from Loretta Young’s sister to Jack London wife. Bob Hope’s fame reaches Torquay where a promontory is nicknamed Hopes Nose.
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Dick Powell
Joan Blondell
Hollywood
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Victor Moore
Elmer Taylor
Honolulu
Norman
Susan Hayward
Loretta Young
Paramount
Samuel Bronston
Jack London
London
United Artists
Michael O'Shea
Notable Nose and Boxer's Rise in Hollywood Gossips
George Reeves famed nose recalls his boxing days at Pomona Junior College where he won the Golden Gloves city heavyweight title three years. Ralph Willever lands a sailor role on NBC's Just Plain Bill after surviving a torpedoed troopship. Lionel Barrymore nears 18th MGM year with Three Men in White his 63rd Metro film. Rita Hayworth and Marilyn Miller echoes surface in Cover Girl casting notes. ODDS AND ENDS mention Phil Baker on war talk and Donald Woods amid Corregidor buzz and fan letters from desert camps.
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Joan Crawford
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Studio
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Donald Woods
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Leslie Foster
Picante
Ginny Imins
Baya
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