Modeling A Path to Film Stardom for Hollywood Hopefuls
A survey of models transitioning to cinema notes Joanne Dru Susan Hayward Ava Gardner Lana Turner and Marilyn Monroe among stars who began in modeling. It highlights how studios spot beauty, test actors, and push models like Anne Francis and Dale Robert toward starring roles in early Hollywood.
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Polywood
Royal
Jane Froman
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Sechnitue
Denture Sarai
Joanne Dru
Dizzy Dean
Dan Dailey
20Th Century-Fox
Pride
St. Louis
John Powers
Dn Moving
Susan Hayward
David O. Selznick
The
Saturday Evening Post
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Tole
Scarlett O'Hara
Ava Gardner
Lana Turner
Arlene Dahl
Gene Tierney
Joyce Mackenzie
Joyce Holden
Patricia Neal
Mona Freeman
Marguerite Chapman
Jinx Faisenberg
Lauren Bacall
Linda Darneil
Virginia Maye
Marilyn Monroe
Los Angeles
20Th Century- Fox
Anne Francis
Lydia Bailey
Dream Boat
Dale Robert
Debra Paget Pursues Career Over Dating in Hollywood
Debra Paget, at 28, says she has no dates and will focus on her career in Hollywood. She values family time, explains romance will wait until a man surpasses her career, and notes a love scene with Cameron Mitchell for Les Miserables. CBS press toast details TV city plans and industry chatter follow.
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Hollywood
Debra Paget
Debra
Cameron Mitchell
CBS
Romanoff
William Pereira
Charles Luckman
Pacific Coast
New York
Misdated Text From A Tangle of Listings
Fragmented OCR shows a chaotic mix of place names, numbers, and items including Belmont Ag, Lakewood, Towne, and Apache Denny. The illegible shard highlights likely ads or auction notices with scattered times and prices, lacking coherent event or person details.
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Innete
Abe
Lakewood
M G M Chief Seeks 1.25 Million Libel Suit
M G M production chief Dore Schary filed a 1 24 million libel suit in Los Angeles against the Wage Earners Committee. Pickets at two theaters carried placards urging a patron boycott of Lone Star and accusing Schary and Vincent Sherman of false statements. Defendants named include Norman B Smith L J Vincent Mrs J J Cunningham and R A McCannon as Wage Earners Committee officers.
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Dore Schary
Wage Earners Committee
House and
State un-American Activities Committees
Schary
Vincent Sherman
Lone Star
Texas
Statehood
Stanley Kramer
Wamed
Norman &. Smith
L. J. Vincent
J. J. Cunningham
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Japan to Import 104 U S Films in Six Months
Tokyo reports the finance ministry will allow import of 104 motion pictures from April to September. The same period will see about 208 Japanese films released. The quota lists 78 American films, seven British, six French, three Italian, and single titles from several countries including West Germany and Sweden. Additional imports to be allocated later.
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Tokyo
Japan
Finance Ministry
West Germany
Sweden
Mexico
Australia
Fina
Austria
China
Argentina
South Africa
Nebee
Cameraman Virgil Miller Finds New Life In Navajo Film
Hollywood turned away from Virgil Miller at 65, but Hall Bartlett brought him back to shoot Navajo a feature. Miller joined Francis Kee Teller in Navajo country, guiding cliff work, calming the young star, and sharing duties when needed. The production faced language hurdles, wigged actor young Francis, and a staged scene over a drink of water before resuming filming. Miller also secured the best Brownie camera as part of the bargain.
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Hollywood
Virgil Miller
Hall Bartlett
Hart
Miller
Arizona
Bartlett
Francis Kee Teller
Ing Cliffy
Miler
Francis Lee Tetler
Chinle
Gallup, N. M
Francis
Star Sings Two Major Roles Today at the Met
New York Feb 9 Eleanor Steber performs two operas in one day at the Metropolitan Opera. She opens with Verdi Othello as the title role Durante, then shifts to Mozart Così Fan Tutte as Fiordiligi in the evening. The schedule totals about three and a half hours with a ten minute vocal rest between shows.
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New York
Eleanor Steber
Metropolitan
Met
Miss Steber
Desdemona
Fiordiligi
Miss Stebert
Writer Philip Epstein Dies in Los Angeles
Philip Epstein, 42, a screenwriter who with his brother Julius Epstein coauthored films including Casablanca The Man Who Came to Dinner Arsenic and Old Lace and The Maltese Falcon died Thursday night in Los Angeles. He arrived in 1934 from New York to pursue his career.
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Los Angeles
Fim
Philip Epstein
Julius
Water Employes Take UCLA Course
Five water department employes completed a one week study on corrosion and its effects on water pipes at the University of California Los Angeles. Participants include C. Kenyon Wells assistant general manager Frank T. Higgins division engineer W. B. Murray assistant civil engineer and Joseph Hanson chemist.
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University of California At
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C. Kenyon Wells
Frank T. Higgins
W. B. Murray
Joseph Hanson
Lanza Day Win Popularity Poll
Hollywood stars Mario Lanza and Doris Day top Photo Play Megazine’s 1951 popularity poll. Lanza earns acclaim for The Great Caruso while Day is honored for The Lullaby of Broadway. Show Boat named most popular movie. gold medals to Arthur Freed George Sidney and John Lee Mahin.
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Mario Lanza
Doris Day
Lanza
Enico Caruso
Caruso
Miss Day
Photoplay
Magazine
Arthur Freed
George Sidney
John Lee Mahin
Edna Ferber
Brother Takes Over Beverly Hills Publishing Firm
Jimmy Rogers younger brother of Will Jr. will run the Beverly Hills Citizen Calif while Will Jr. is on a three month leave to portray his father in Warmer Bros The Story of Will Rogers based on Uncle Clem's Boy by Betty Rogers He stars with Jane Wyman in the Technicolor picture and plans to return as publisher after filming ends.
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Will Rogers Jr
Beverly Hills
Warner Bros
Will Rogers
Rogers
Jane Wyman
Betty Rogers
Michael Curtiz
Jimmy Rogers
Calif
Warmer Bros
Clem
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