Peter Levinson; chronicled big band leaders Oct 24, 2008
He had worked with the trumpeter in the 1930s and '40s and produced what The New York Times called a "relentlessly candid" recitation of James's life, his marriage to World War II-era film star and pin-up queen Betty Grable, and his bouts with alcoholism, gambling, and adultery. Critic Nat Hentoff wrote that "Trumpet Blues" "is one of the very few biographies of a musician I have read that not only told me much more than I thought I knew, but compelled me to listen right away to the music... (Boston Globe)
Hollywood 'paid stars a fortune to smoke' Sep 25, 2008
According to the research, stars prepared to endorse tobacco included Clark Gable, Cary Grant, Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford, John Wayne, Bette Davis and Betty Grable. Big payments. (BBC News)
John Capouya's 'Gorgeous George' and Beatrice Colin's 'The Glitter Palace' Sep 22, 2008
He'd modeled his pin-curled hairstyle on those of actresses like Betty Grable and Gene Tierney, and he knew that doing interviews with his head under a hot croquignole machine - this in an era when John Wayne represented the masculine ideal - was good hokum. Later, at the arena, he'd send a valet out first, to spray the ring with perfume and to daintily tidy up the place. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Navy nurse pioneer leads renewal of Corps vows Jul 14, 2008
And a lot of movie stars came, like Betty Grable. "Marines provided physical training for the nurses."Hep two, three, four -- hup two, three four, they were really rough on us," the New Jersey native recalled.Four years of service taught that "love and compassion was the name of the game," which Pfieffer put to use during her career. About six years ago Pfieffer broke her hip and became a resident at Emory L. Bennett Veterans Nursing Home."It was good to hear words from a leader and pioneer,"... (Daytona Beach News Journal)
Material girls Jun 12, 2008
Meanwhile, Nicole Kidman announced last year that she is remaking How to Marry a Millionaire, the 1953 film starring Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall and Betty Grable, the title of which tells you everything you need to know about the plot. The producers assure us that the story will be "completely overhauled" to keep it in line with modern values. (Guardian Unlimited)
Where there's smoke, there's ire; no ifs or butts Jun 1, 2008
Humphrey Bogart made smoking look tough, James Dean made it cool, Cary Grant made it sophisticated, Betty Grable made it glamorous and Lauren Bacall, leaning against the doorway of Bogart's hotel room asking "Anybody got a match?", made it sexy. With the 1950s and 1960s came confirmation that tobacco caused cancer and other serious diseases, yet True Blue blissfully smoked on - in homes, offices and factories, in cars and on public transport, in cafes, restaurants, clubs and pubs. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
There's always something to do in St. Louis May 28, 2008
Actors from Hollywood's Golden Age like Betty Grable, Vincent Price, Shelley Winters and Buddy Ebsen have roots here too, along with contemporary favorites John Goodman, Marsha Mason, Robert Guillaume and Kevin Kline. Each summer the magic of musical theatre echoes through Forest Park as The Muny - short for Municipal Opera Association - stages seven weeks of American musicals under the stars. (Park Hills Daily Journal, MO)
Legendary Comedian and Director Dick Martin Dies in Santa Monica May 25, 2008
This began with an appearance on The Show, in an episode which also featured Diana Dors and Betty Grable. He then appeared in two episodes of The Dinah Shore Chevy Show, the first of which featured and the second of which involved his first appearance with Dan Rowan, who was to become the other half of his famous double-act. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
ONE LAST DAY AT THE RACES May 11, 2008
He bought his first horse in '48, a filly named LaGazelle, once owned by Betty Grable and Mickey Rooney. O'Neil would pry loose a few boards in the Bay Meadows fence late at night and sneak himself and his horse onto the track for training rides. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Silk and Nylon Stockings Apr 14, 2008
com, the photos showed Betty Grable, Ann Sheridan, Lana Turner, Dorothy Lamour, Rita Hayworth, Linda Darnell and other gorgeous celebrities admiring or slipping on the cotton stockings. The message from the Office of War Information (OWI) was that if cotton was good enough for these gals, it was good enough for everyone, even though the cotton stockings were not as sheer or attractive as silk or nylon. (Suite101.com)
THE EVOLUTION OF SEX SYMBOLS Apr 13, 2008
Examples: Betty Grable, Judy Garland, Olivia de Havilland. The femme fatale. (Florida Times-Union)
Jazz, swing and Harry JamesPosted 4 hours, 40 minutes ago. Apr 12, 2008
Radke couldn t have known at the time how his life would intersect with James, the big band composer and performer famous for his music and his marriage to actress and pin-up girl Betty Grable. After becoming a professional trumpet player in his own right, Radke became James first trumpet in his band during the 60s, Radke said. (Lima News, OH)
And what's in your closet? Mar 28, 2008
For example "the movie "My Blue Heaven," starring Betty Grable, 1950, was about a couple who couldn't have children and would adopt them," Modena said. "I would think every time the phone rang it was Betty calling to adopt me," he said. (Orange Bulletin, CT)
Haunted Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel Jan 28, 2008
In the Blossom Room, he discovered Betty Grable and Edward Arnold. There is a theory that ghost sightings began to take place after renovations are done to a building. (Suite101.com)
Johnny Grant, Hollywood's honorary mayor; at 84 Jan 13, 2008
His guests included Eleanor Roosevelt, Betty Grable, Mel Torm and Joe DiMaggio. In 1951, he made his first overseas trip to entertain the troops. (Boston Globe)
British stage legend Pat Kirkwood dies Dec 26, 2007
Britain s answer to Betty Grable was the most popular musical star of the 1940s and 1950s and the darling of the West End stage. Kirkwood was the leading lady in musicals written by Noel Coward, Cole Porter and Leonard Bernstein, and went on to find fame in Hollywood. (The Australian)
DVD watch: The too-short career of Laird Cregar Oct 9, 2007
In a rare dramatic role, Betty Grable sleuths the fate of her New York model sis (Carole Landis), murdered on the eve of her West Coast departure. As a lumbering cop who all but flashes "perv" in neon, Cregar, with his reasons, compounds her stress. (USA Today -- Life)
Some bands were in some of the movies Sep 30, 2007
"Harry James and his Music Makers" is the featured band, along with Betty Grable, John Payne and Carmen Miranda. The music was written by, as they used to say, Mack Gordon and Harry Who. (The Citizen's Voice, PA)
JANE WYMAN 1917-2007 Sep 12, 2007
" Wyman's last major film appearance was with Bob Hope and Jackie Gleason in "How to Commit Marriage" in 1969. The remainder of her acting career was primarily in television, highlighted by her starring role on "Falcon Crest" on CBS. The role gave Wyman an opportunity to break away from her nice-girl image and play a female power broker intent on ruling over her family of winemakers at any cost. Sarah Jane Mayfield Fulks was born in St. Joseph, Mo. on Jan. 5, 1917. Her father died when she was... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Jane Wyman, 90, star of film and tv, is dead Sep 11, 2007
The chorus line included Paulette Goddard and Betty Grable. In his biography of Reagan, "Dutch," Edmund Morris wrote that Wyman married Ernest Eugene Wyman in 1933, claiming to be three years older than her actual age, 16, on the marriage certificate. (International Herald Tribune)
'Falcon Crest' Actress Jane Wyman Dies at 90 Sep 11, 2007
Wyman got her start in films in the chorus of a 1932 Busby Berkeley movie beside other then-unknowns such as Betty Grable and Paulette Goddard. After a string of films in which she was "third from the right in the front row of the chorus," she graduated to B movies playing, as Hollywood columnist Hedda Hopper once said, "brassy dames whose most incisive piece of repartee was, 'Oh, yeah?' " She changed her name to Wyman when she went under contract at Warner Bros. (Zap2it.com)
Television movies for the week of Sept. 2 Sep 2, 2007
TV Movies: Sept. 2-8. G = General audiences PG = Parental Guidance PG-13 = Not recommended for preteens R = Restricted audience. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Roy Gerber, talent agent, 82 Aug 25, 2007
While at MCA, Gerber and associate Jim Murray headed up the Las Vegas office, booking The Rat Pack and Betty Grable, while Gerber repped Lewis, Edie Adams, Victor Borge, Diahann Carroll and Shirley Jones. After MCA left the agency business in 1962, Gerber and Weiss joined General Artists Corporation where they represented The Beatles, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Mamas and the Papas, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Phyllis Diller, Steve Lawrence and Edie Gorme. (Variety)
Roy Gerber, 82; talent agent was model for 'Odd Couple' character Aug 25, 2007
From 1954 to 1960, Gerber and associate Jim Murray were in charge of MCA's Las Vegas office, where they booked the Rat Pack, Betty Grable and other major entertainers into the city's clubs -- as well as entertainers personally represented by Gerber, such as Jerry Lewis, Edie Adams and Victor Borge. In the early 1960s, Gerber and Weiss joined General Artists Corp., where they represented the Beatles, the Lovin' Spoonful, the Mamas and the Papas, Johnny Rivers, Richard Pryor, Tom Jones and others. (Los Angeles Times)
Hangar's Rent Increase Leaves Historic Bomber's Future Up In Air Jun 15, 2007
MIKE PUPICH: She's a great gal. But she's only up there six months of the year then we switch to Betty Grable. CHUCK HENRY: But now Pupich is engaged in his own battle with the Van Nuys Airport. (NBC4.tv, CA)
Our View: The magic continues at Little Theatre Jun 2, 2007
Other well-known performers such as Margaret Hamilton, the Wicked Witch of the West from Wizard of Oz; Ruth Warrick of All My Children fame; Jo Ann Worley, best known from the TV comedy Laugh In; Leonard Nimoy; Betty Grable; Mickey Rooney; Alan Alda; and many, many more have stepped onto the Little stage. The Little Theatre once was a place where folks in East Central Illinois could see big-name stars up close. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Fresnan danced her way to screen legacy May 12, 2007
She rode, worked or danced with Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Betty Grable, Rita Hayworth and Cyd Charisse, McCarthy recalled. Mrs. Leonard's uncle, Dutch Leonard, pitched for the Boston Red Sox. (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Nicole Kidman to Show Us 'How to Marry a Millionaire' May 1, 2007
Monroe and Betty Grable were in supporting roles ... Believe it or not, Betty Grable had the most screen time ... Nicole: Lauren BacallCharlize: Marilyn MonroeScarlett: Betty Grable. (Cinematical)
Nostalgia soars in Visalia May 1, 2007
The all-volunteer CAF restored it to a wartime configuration, complete with authentic machine guns and turrets, replica bombs in the bomb bay and provocative nose art typical of World War II bombers -- actress Betty Grable in a famous swimsuit pinup pose. "This is the most accurately restored B-17 that exists in the world right now," co-pilot R.Z. "Bob" Blue of Cypress, Texas, said of the airplane that now tours the United States as a "flying museum."The arrival was emotional for Gordon Ah Tye... (Fresno Bee -- Local)
Teased to meet you, from one scene stealer to another Apr 29, 2007
Born Heather Sweet in a Michigan farming town, Von Teese grew up fascinated with films and actresses such as Rita Hayworth and Betty Grable. As a teenager she worked in a lingerie store before starting her stripping career in Los Angeles at the age of 18. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Looking Back Apr 26, 2007
Favorites: color, blue; sport, swimming; food, chicken, song, Party Doll; TV show, Highway Patrol; actor, Rock Hudson; actress, Betty Grable; pastime, listening to radio or TV. First Grade The first grade invited the second grade and kindergarten to come to our room. We sang three Indian songs for them. (Kalona News, IA)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY KISS TURNS INTO ROMANCE Apr 17, 2007
who leaves no moan unturned, turned his attention-deficit disorder to Courtney Love. He's 52, she's 42, and whenever was his birthday they discovered. (New York Post -- Gossip)
'American Idol' casts shadow over Broadway Apr 8, 2007
In some ways, these shows are merely a new wrinkle on stunt casting that has been around at least since impresario David Merrick began tapping performers with little or no stage experience, such as Betty Grable, to keep "Hello, Dolly!" humming along. More recently, "Get the 'American Idols' " has been a Broadway producer's mantra as such contestants as Diana DeGarmo and Frenchie Davis have added financial luster to "Hairspray" and "Rent.". (Los Angeles Times)
Hitting A B Note Mar 29, 2007
One of the more pleasing rarities in the series is Robert Florey's "This Way Please" (1937), a modest romantic comedy that Betty Grable made during her apprenticeship at Paramount, with Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Fibber McGee and, in her only credited screen appearance, Jack Benny's wife, Mary Livingstone. Rich Conaty, host of WFUV's "The Big Broadcast," will handle the introduction. (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Murray Grand, 87, composer Mar 28, 2007
A native of Philadelphia, Grand started his career at the age of 15 as a pianist, then served in the U.S. Army Infantry during WWII, where he accompanied performers including Betty Grable, Gypsy Rose Lee, Beatrice Lillie and Alberta Hunter during USO military tours. Following the Army, he studied composition and piano at the Julliard School of Music and became the pianist at New York's Fireside Inn. (Variety)
Murray Grand, 87; prolific tunesmith of Broadway, clubs Mar 14, 2007
While serving in the Army during World War II, he accompanied stars such as Betty Grable, Gypsy Rose Lee and Beatrice Lillie who toured with the USO.. After the war, he studied composition and piano at the Juilliard School. (Los Angeles Times)
The Notorious Bettie Page Mar 2, 2007
There was a joy and humour in the real pictures of Bettie Page from that era; she looked like a naughtier version of the wholesome sex-bomb style of Betty Grable, the soldiers' pin-up, but Mol plays her as a woman without guile, a natural beauty who refused to feel ashamed. It's a great performance. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
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I d booked every star that could be booked from Betty Grable to Caesar Romero to Ann Miller and etcetera. For the theatre s 50th year, however, Little has been invited to cast Follies, Stephen Sondheim s classic musical masterpiece -- produced on Broadway in 1971, starring, among others, Dorothy Collins, who starred in Sullivan in 1968. (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Ooh-la-la! Penchant for pinups pays off Feb 3, 2007
Eager collectors snap up vintage pictures of stars such as Betty Grable, Hedy Lamarr and Veronica Lake in coy, come-hither poses. Pinup fever was further inflamed by the 2005 movie The Notorious Bettie Page, starring Gretchen Mol as the hottest pinup of the 1950s. (Orlando Sentinel)
The game of the name Jan 2, 2007
Welcome to The Sydney Morning Herald. Cecily DynesJanuary 3, 2007. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Australia)
