Hollywood Buzz and International Notes from Behind the Scenes
Hollywood chatter covers Ethel Smith denying marriage to Ralph Bellamy amid divorce gossip. Betty Hutton plans a two week Mexico visit with Eunice MacFarland. George Pal sustains burns filming Jasper’s Booby Trap. Cornel Wilde removes wedding ring after a duelling accident on A Thousand and One Nights.
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Mexico City
Hollywood
Betty Hutton
Paramount
Betty
Mexico
Eunice MacFarland
Germany
George Pal
Jasper
Cornel Wilde
Sonja Henie Quips on Yankee Stadium Sellout Gross
In a St. Louis Sporting News item Sonja Henie and Larry McPhail confer in the east before Dan Topping and a syndicate buy the New York Yankees. McPhail explains baseball rules while Sonja interrupts asking about the gross when the place is sold out.
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Sonja Henie
St. Louis Sporting News
Sonja
Larry McPhail
East
Dan Topping
New York Yankees
McPhail
Yankee Stadium
Victoria James Recovers From Cold Delays at Studio
Victoria James eleven months old recovers from a cold, while Betty Grable worries through the night on the Dolly Sisters set. Ingrid calls her Sweden’s Pia name after her husband Peter and Ingrid, reflecting a playful naming trend. Chet Lauck Lum of Lum and Abner may be impressed as the Las Vegas ranch foreman wins a Nevada assembly seat. Capt. Edward E Duderstadt of San Antonio, a former Bob Cummings pupil, was shot.
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Twentieth Century-Fox
Victoria James
Betty Grable
Dolly Sisters
Sweden
Pia
Ingrid
Peter
Chet Lauck
Lum
Abner
Lasegas Ranch
Nevada
Bob Cummings
Edward E. Duderstadt
San Antonio
Tex
Lana Turner Celebrates 24th Birthday On Set
Lana Turner marks 24 with a party in her dressing room aboard the Week End at the Waldorf set. Attendees include six long-time MGM colleagues Lillian Del Carl Hazel Romayne and Alice. An extra’s gun misfired nearby John Wayne on the Invisible Army location, leaving Wayne with powder burns.
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Lana Turner
Lana
M-G-M
Lillian
Del
Carl
Hazel
Romayne
Alice
John Wayne
R-K-O
Wayne
Oakland nurse brings laughter to mute boy in ward
In a hospital ward a nurse named Jean Heather drew a smile from a boy who had not spoken for eight months. Grateful patients sent her two cartons of cigarets after hearing how she was cut by Paramount from Murder, He Says and made to play an idiot.
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Oakland
Jean Heather
Hebrides
Jean
Paramount
Honolulu
Hollywood Hi Jinx At Vaughn Monroe Palladium
Hollywood scene notes include Vaughn Monroe opening at the Palladium with crooner Andy Russell and Martha Stewart a Copacabana hitmaker now signed to Twentieth Century Fox. Forrest Tucker on two weeks leave visits with wife Sandra and baby at the Brown Derby.
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Hollywood
Ozzy Nelson
Bob Crosby
South Pacific
Tony Rewinho
California
Bob Hope
Malinguae Medica At Camp Lejeune Dispensary
A Nationally distributed feature explains the malinguae medica or dopeoff at a Marine Corps dispensary. Doctors handle 25 000 calls in two months as hypochondriacs, malingering troops, and eager fakers seek light duty slips and survey ratings while staff use blunt threats and plain glass tests to uncover real illness.
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Durante
Florence Nightingale
C.O
Marine Corps
Doc
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Harrison Carroll
King Features Syndicate
Ethel Smith
Ralph Bellamy
Bellamy
Katherine
Pan American World Airways
Consolidated Vultee
New York
London
International
E. Simms Campbell
Manila
U. S
Tojo
WIB
Mt. Serrasiccla
Italy
Fifth Army
Bismuth
Jed MA
Did
Ofhce
By Jimmy Hatlo
Thanx
John King
Missouri
M. M
Malinguae Medica
Central Press Association
The
Leatherneck
By Sgt
H. J. Connor
United States Marine Corps
Navy
Weill
Sick Bay
Hulk
States
Lone Range
Tiis
Michael
Tonto
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