Anita Loo the wardrobe queen of Hollywood
Anita Loo, a young Chinese actress living in Hollywood, flaunts a vast wardrobe of 170 dresses 250 pairs of shoes and mink coats. She credits her father a banker in Hong Kong for financing many outfits and notes she studied drama at the University of California. Her TV credits include Hawaiian Eye Hong Kong and Laramie with an American movie debut in Experiment in Terror opposite Glenn Ford.
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Hollywood
Anita Loo
Fifth Avenue
Anita
Elizabeth Taylor
Hong Kong
Laramie
Glenn Ford
University of Southern California
United States
University of California
America
Landau to Stage Kramm Novel Play in New York
After six years focused on Shakespeare, director Jack Landau returns to contemporary drama with Giants, Sons of Giants by Pulitzer winner Joseph Kramm. Landau recently resigned as artistic director of the American Shakespeare Festival Theater in Stratford, Conn. The New York opening is slated for January.
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New York
Jack Landau
Joseph Kramm
Landau
American Shakespeare Festival Theater
Stratford
Kramm
Impressive Fall Books Fill Santa’s Gift Lists
New York AP reports a crowded fall publishing season with lavish art, history, archaeology, and nature books priced up to 30 dollars. Notable titles include The Life Pictorial Atlas of the World and The Horizon Book of the Renaissance with hundreds of illustrations, plus works from Life, American Heritage, and Crowell.
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New York
Santa Claus
Life Magazine
Life
Rand McNally
Golden Press
Prentice - Hall
Horizon
Doubleday
Horizon Magazine
American Heritage
Piper Laurie Leaves Studio To Rebrand Her Image
Piper Laurie reflecting on a public petal scandal five years ago reveals leaving Universal-International and a $250 weekly contract. She credits the studio with a name to bargain with and support during selectivity, then pursues TV and film roles in New York while avoiding past fame’s glare.
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Hollywood
Piper Laurie
Piper
Universal - International Studios
Robert Montgomery
Best Sellers List Update for Fiction and Nonfiction
The latest bestseller list shows fiction with titles including The Agony and the Ecstasy by Stone ranking second, Franny and Zooey by Salinger first, To Kill a Mockingbird by Lee third, The Carpetbaggers by Robbins fourth, and Clock Without Hands by McCullers sixth. Nonfiction features The Making of the President 1961 by White first, A Nation of Sheep by Er led erer second, Citizen Hearst by Swanberg fourth, The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich by Shirer third, and Inside Europe Today by Gunther fifth.
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Stone
Franny and
Zooey
Salinger
Lee
THE
Robbins
McCullers
White
Lederer
Hearst
Swanberg
Skirer
Loew Adopts Tyrone Power’s Son
Hollywood AP Arthur Loew Jr. disclosed he is the legal father of Tyrone Power’s young son born after Power’s death in Spain on November 15, 1958. The boy will be three in January. Debbie Minardos Power is the actor’s widow.
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Hollywood
Arthur Loew Jr
Tyrone Power
Power
Spain
Debbie Minardos Power
Plan Berlin Talks between Macmillan and Adenauer
Bonn Germany AP reports the Federal Press and Information Office confirms Prime Minister Harold Macmillan and Chancellor Konrad Adenauer will meet in December to discuss the German and Berlin problems.
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Bonn
Germany
Federal Press and Information Office
Harold Macmillan
Konrad Adenauer
Berlin
Power Loew Child Receives Family Name Change
The figure Tyrone William Power Loew is recorded as the child’s new name following a marriage event. The lineage inherits both Loew and Power, reflecting a combined surname.
Kirward Derby Name Sparks Legal Query in Hollywood
Jay Ward Productions faces inquiry from Durward Kirby's lawyers over the Kirward Derby gag in The Bullwinkle Show. The studio jokes about naming options and acknowledges the potential for trademark confusion while defending its cartoon humor.
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Jay Ward
New York
Kirward
Durward Kirby
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