Cukor clouts Shelly Winters sparks in film set tale
Hollywood notes recount director George Cukor slapping Shelly Winters during A Double Life rehearsals after she ad libbed dialogue. The piece also highlights Cukor’s career, Mona Freeman’s screen youth trend, and early stars who portrayed younger roles on screen.
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Shelly Winters
Cukor
Ronald Colman
Miss Winters
Garson Kanin
Hollywood
Mona Freeman
Eg Pa
James M. Barrie
Miss Freeman
Mary Pickford
Lord Lord
Fautory
Rebecca Sunnybrook
Jean Parker
Katharine
Womseer
Ates
Renee Aeemy
Kitty Foyle
The Case Of The Chink Without Any Trousers
UPI report from Korea describes a tank patrol near Hantanap where a nude Chinese soldier appeared across the water. After debate over firing, CAPT Kenneth Leman and Lt. Dohleman ordered artillery instead, sending 155 mm shells into the hillside.
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Korea
Hantanap
Kenneth Leman
Dohleman
Arson Expert Turns Real Blaze Into Safe Film Effect
In Hollywood Chauncey Webb, a 20 year veteran arsonist for films, creates controlled barn fires for the Western Fine Day starring Josephine Hull. Webb uses kerosene treated wood, rubber cement, and asbestos to simulate damage while planners keep buildings savable. The process involves staged flames, quick extinguishing, and careful safety measures with actors and crew.
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Hollywood
Chauncey Webb
Webb
Josephine Hull
Howard Duff
Mona Freeman
Joseph Pevney
Webb Brigade
Teeth Pulled With Pliers In Simple Home Extraction
Elza Gobel 30 pulled his own teeth using pliers after a loss of blood required a transfusion. He is in the hospital. The report adds unrelated brief items about a neighborhood bully, rabbit breeding aid, a Prince George land rush, and wartime artillery observations.
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Charleston
Elza Gobel
Gobel
City transit usage figures show streetcar reliance
The text notes peak horses and transit context with average city residents riding street cars trackless trolleys or buses about 270 times yearly illustrating urban transport habits and scale
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Joan Fontaine
Katharine Hirn
Paulette Goddard
Joan Wford
Greta Garbo
Nored
20Th Century-Fox
Thelma Ritter
Randollph Scott Ruth Roman
Rialto
Horney
Frances Gifford
Jommny
Sheffield
Low Archdale
High Point
Joel McRea
Ellen Drew
Winston Road
Gregory Peck
Ava Gardner
Melvyn Douglas
Waiter Huston
Ethel Barrymore
Frank Morgan
Agnes Moorenead
MGM
Sinner
Tom & Jerry
Wanderers
Billy Dewolfe
Texas
Glenn Ford
Anne Baxter
Dennis O'Keefe
Edward Arnold
Lyle Bettger
Lenoir-Rhyne
Bobby
Lenoir-Rhyne College
Fritz Michael
W. L. Hunt
Res Et
Ruby Frances Zimmerman
L. R. Zimmerman
Michael
Zimmerman
By Robert Vermillion
Strangier
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State Commerce Department
Yellowstone
Gunfighter
Alan Ladd
Freeman - Bickford
Thomasville Road
Sessee
Association For Family Living
Springfield
Ill
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State
Beagle Club Association
Prince George, B
Jack M. George
Clover Brands
Roy Rogers
Three Stooges
Broadhurst
Rip McCool
Frisco
Vovia Barry
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Claude Jarman, JR
Arsene Dahl Ivan
Brad Runyon
CTU Mae
Anne
Carolina
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Rou Nee
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