Movies ‘48 #1

My latest Golden Age of Hollywood article for the Seaside News appears on page 42 of the magazine.

Movie News – January 1, 1948

A party to announce the engagement of Lana Turner (pictured) to tinplate millionaire Henry J. Topping was hastily cancelled when Topping discovered that he couldn’t make the event. Four hundred invitations had been sent out to “the cream of Hollywood society and the international social world”.

Topping had proposed to Lana Turner at the 21 Club in New York City by dropping a diamond ring into her martini. The couple married in April 1948, and divorced in 1952.

Movie News – January 2, 1948

Film critics in New York named Deborah Kerr as the actress of the year for her performances in Black Narcissus and The Adventuress, a Second World War spy movie with comic touches. Released in Britain as I See a Dark Stranger, The Adventuress also featured Trevor Howard.

Movie News – January 3, 1948

Bing Crosby (pictured) was the silver screen’s box office favourite for the fourth successive year, Motion Picture Extra announced, after polling exhibitors. The runners up: Betty Grable, Ingrid Bergman, Gary Cooper, Humphrey Bogart, Bob Hope, Clark Gable, Gregory Peck, Claudette Colbert and Alan Ladd.

Movie News – January 4, 1948

Evacuated from London to Pasadena during the Second World War, and now taking Hollywood by storm after her appearance in National Velvet. many in the film industry, including Mickey Rooney, predicted that Elizabeth Taylor would be the “sensation of 1948”.

Movie News – January 5, 1948

“Only about fifteen percent of film made in Hollywood in 1948 will be based on original stories. The remainder will be based on ‘sure-fire successes’ – sixty-five percent will be remakes of old successes and the remaining twenty percent will be new versions of successful stage plays.”

Movie News – January 6, 1948

Films showing in British cinemas this week included The White Unicorn (also known as Bad Sister in America) starring Joan Greenwood and Margaret Lockwood, Duel in the Sun starring Jennifer Jones, Desert Fury starring Burt Lancaster, Uncle Silas starring Jean Simmons and Ivy starring Joan Fontaine.

Movie News – January 7, 1948

Sunday’s double feature at the Grand Theatre, Banbury: Tarzan’s Secret Treasure starring Johnny Weissmuller and Maureen O’Sullivan, and Man From Music Mountain with Roy Rogers.

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