Fortune Waits Writers of To Each His Own
Jay Livingston and Ray Evans, slender young men in loud sport coats, earned 40 000 each for To Each His Own. Their lyrics to Victor Young music helped Golden Earrings become a favorite. Once penniless, they now run offices at Paramount with ten tunes in forthcoming films and hope for Buttons and Bows in The Paleface.
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Ollywood
Jay Livingston
Ray Evans
Ray
Jay
Victor Young
New York City
University of Pennsylvania
Olsen Andohnson
Johnny Mercer
Mercer
Betty Hutton
Paramount Pictures
Jane Russell
Coleen Cuts Corners on Wardrobe
Coleen Gray recalls practical clothes tricks from near-minimum wardrobe days at Hamline University. She stars opposite Victor Mature in Fury at Furnace Creek and still adapts dresses into blouses by cutting off tops. Lon de Haver and Londe Haver fashion notes follow with outfits and accessories. Gene Autry expands media reach with television facility applications for his four radio stations.
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Leen Gray
Hollywood
Minnesota
Hamline University
Coleen
20Th Century-Fox
Victor Mature
Furnace Creek
Lane Sister Returns to Screen in Bodyguard
Lane, youngest Lane sister, resumes film work after a year and a half to star as the female lead in RKO Radio's Bodyguard with Lawrence Tierney. She married Joseph A. Howard in 1944 and paused acting while moving with the Army. she briefly returned in 1946 for Fun on a Weekend before resuming family life. Bodyguard production starts next week with Sid Rogell producing and Richard Fleischer directing. Errol Flynn is nursing a blistered right hand from dueling duties in Adventures of Don Juan.
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Pecs Lane
Lane
Lawrence Tierney
Miss Lane
Joseph A. Howard
Andrew Stone
Sid Rogell
Richard Fleischer
Errol Flynn
Ann Dvorak Renounces Gang Moll Past in Hollywood
Actress Ann Dvorak says she reformed after four years in England with the British Ambulance Corps. She has quit carrying a rod and now acts in The Walls of Jericho, while denying any moll persona and noting she has written a musical story she can sell if a studio needs one.
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Hollywood
Moll
Sing Sing
East River
England
Alcatraz
Chicago
Walls of Jericho
20Th Century- Fox
Linda Darnell
Cornel Wilde
Anne Baxter
Kirk Douglas
Miss Dvorak
Bare knuckle fighters spark movie makeup debates
Moviegoers debate the realism of bare knuckle fights on screen noting women are often portrayed with muddy beauty while heroes escape visible damage. The piece cites RKO and examples in Station West with Dick Powell and The Big Sleep with Humphrey Bogart as contrasts.
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Colorado
RKO Radio
West
Dick Powell
Guvnn
Big Boy
Humphrey Bogart
Powell
Living Theater Presents One Act Plays from Harrity and Foote
The Living Theater features three short plays led by Richard Harrity’s Hope Is the Thing With Feathers in Central Park with Will Geer George Mathews and E G Marshall. Also presented are E P Conkle’s Prologue to Glory and Horton Foote’s Celebration with a Southern aristocracy theme. John Morley plays Lincoln in Afternoon Storm with Mary Todd and Norma Chambers in supporting roles.
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Richard Harrity
Central Park
Lincoln
Mr. Conkle
John Morley
Mary Todd
Helen Marcy
Norma Chambers
Ann Ruusge
Horton Foote
Hilda Vaughn
Perry Wilson
Warren Stevens
Sally Gracie
James Karen
Pasadena Tot Lands Big Part in Sorrowful Jones
Mary Jayne Saunders five year old daughter of Pasadena residents Mr and Mrs Robert Saunders won the title role in Paramount film Sorrowful Jones based on Damon Runyon character. She was selected from more than five thousand children after six months of screening and will begin wardrobe fittings as cameras roll with Lucille Ball co starring and Sidney Lanfield directing.
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Holl Wee
Little Miss Marker
Paramount
Damon Runyon
Bob Hope
Mary Jayne Saunders
Robert Saunders
Pasadena
Mary Jayne
Saunders
Bracman Ignition Works
Los Angeles
Millie
Shirley Temple
Mary Jane
Sorrowful Jones
Lucille Ball
Hope
Sidmey Lanfield
Unborn Passenger Booked by Airline
American Airlines faces a quirky controversy after agreeing to transport an unborn passenger. Jerry Colonna’s fan mail inspired the airline to offer a future child a free flight to honor the “Honkey Little Donkey” tune, with the destination and newborn address yet to be determined.
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American Airlines
Jerry Colonna
Colonna
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