Chester Morris recalls Jean Harlow stage bit and Hollywood days
Chester Morris recalls early Hollywood years and big pay clashes. He notes a director fixation on lips for Jean Harlow and details his peak earnings of about 20 000 a week while contract takings benefited a film mogul. He recalls wardrobe woes on The Divorcee with Norma Shearer and a pimple joke from her.
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Jean Harlow
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Morris
Marilyn Monroe
Milton Greene
Norma Shearer
Norma
MGM
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TV Schedule Fragments Highlight Evening Lineup
A fragmented TV guide lists Ed Sullivan Theatre at 7:00, Hitchcoe at 8:30, The $64,000 Challenge at 9:00, and Washington RB at 12:15, signaling a varied late afternoon to midnight lineup.
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Ford Theater
Ed Sullivan
Hitchcoe
Love Young at 8:00 and Wallace at 9:30 Showtimes
Readable notes show two performances with start times 8 00 and 9 30 featuring Love Young and Wallace in sequence.
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Car
Love Young
Wallace
Ed Wynn Turns To Serious Roles After Comedy Career
Veteran entertainer Ed Wynn at 71 is shifting from long comedy to dramatic parts in film and stage. From The Great Man to Requiem for a Heavyweight his new roles earned praise, with NBC drama The Portege and Perry Como appearance upcoming. Wynn recalls early radio fame as Fire Chief and a career spanning vaudeville to Broadway and beyond.
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New York
Ed Wynn
Wynn
Keenan
NBC
Film Has Fun With The Army
Hollywood reports Jack Lemmon making a wild wartime comedy about GIs and Army nurses. The film mocks Army discipline and notes the U S Army refused cooperation, with Lemmon boasting of chaotic antics and a party driven plot for Operation Madball.
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Hollywood
Jack Lemmon
Ens. Pulver
Mister Roberts
Lemmon
U. S. Army
Bilko
James Cagney Directs Debut Film Short Cut to Hell
Hollywood report says Robert Ivers notes Jimmy Cagney toward perfection as he directs Short Cut to Hell in his first directing job. Ivers, a newcomer, plays a tough killer. the scene features Ivers overpowering Marvyn Vye without a double. Vye is a former collegiate wrestling champion weighing 190 pounds.
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Robert Ivers
Jimmy Cagney
Ivers
Hell
Cagney
Marvyn Vye
Vye
Fishermen recover stolen cash register in Kentucky river
In Danville Kentucky fishermen Dave Cloyd and his son Travis reeled in a cash register stolen from a service station. While freeing their hook Travis slipped into three feet of water and mistook the register’s ribbon for a snake but salvaged the device and returned it to the owner.
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Danville
Dave Cloyd
Travis
Swans Lifetime Range Noted in Brief Text
A short note states swans are peaceful birds and can live thirty to forty years and sometimes a hundred years, highlighting their long lifespans.
Woman Delivers Guppy Birth After Death in Aquarium
In Hammond Indiana Mrs Howard L Rose used a paring knife tweezers and safety pins to extract 21 unborn guppies from a deceased mother guppy after nine fry had already been born. The event followed the birth and the mother guppy died.
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Hammond, Ind
Howard L. Rose
Station Master Slowed By Tanks
CHICKASHA Okla F R Stine hurried to open his gasoline station but his car ran dry A friend 3 11 Schumacher offered a lift They went six blocks then Schumacher s car stalled They walked the rest of the way
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Chickasha, Okla
F. R. Stine
Schumacher
Stine
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