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1944 in Print — ‘Walter Winchell on Broadway,’ Feb. 10, 1944

Feb. 10, 1944: Yawn of the Week: The raging waste of words about Steinbeck’s script of “Lifeboat” being distorted (to make the Nazi look good and the rescued look weak and yappy, etc.) is a bore of an argument over … Continue reading

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1944 in Print — ‘Walter Winchell on Broadway,’ Feb. 9, 1944

Feb. 9, 1944: Al Jolson is Jinx Falkenberg’s most constant visitor at her St. Luke’s Hospital bedside…. New Yorkers suspect that Wayne (wife-killer) Lonergan’s sudden coin (to hire a lawyer) came from men named in her diary … Betty Hutton … Continue reading

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1944 in Print — Walter Winchell on Broadway, March 7, 1944

March 7, 1944 Notes of an Innocent Bystander The Magic Lantern: Danny Kaye, who knocked off B’way in his first start, put Hollywood in his pocket the same way. His starter, “Up in Arms,” makes him a Milquetoast in khaki … Continue reading

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1944 in Print — ‘Walter Winchell on Broadway,’ Feb. 7, 1944

Feb. 7, 1944: For many years Rachel Field worked in Paramount’s New York office as a script reader, examining the merit of all submitted material … She once remarked: “Hmf, I can do better than some of this stuff. Some … Continue reading

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1944 in Print — ‘Walter Winchell on Broadway,’ Feb. 5, 1944

Feb. 5, 1944: Grace Moore, who uses the Stork Club’s back door — which is what most celebs wish they could do — to avoid the starers, oglers and other celebrity-worshipers … Jean Arthur, the lovely lady in the red … Continue reading

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1944 in Print — ‘Walter Winchell on Broadway,’ Feb. 4, 1944

Feb. 4, 1944: “Dear Walter,” writes Maurice Rocco, “It must be an oldie but it still gets the biggest laugh wherever gamblers gather. About the wife who (going through her groom’s pockets) found a slip of paper on which was … Continue reading

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1944 in Print — ‘Walter Winchell on Broadway,’ Feb. 3, 1944

Feb. 3, 1944: Walter Winchell devotes his entire column to an organization called Peace Now.  He did not approve. From the St. Petersburg Times.

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1944 in Print — ‘Walter Winchell on Broadway,’ Feb. 1, 1944

Feb. 1, 1944: “The Duke in the Darkness,” a starrer for Philip Merivale, drew regrets that the author of “Angel Street” had used a rickety typewriter to fashion this one … “The Song of Bernadette,” coming in on a 12-cylinder … Continue reading

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