The Divine Dinah Shore (1916-94).
DINAH SHORE She was born Frances Rose Shore in Winchester, Tennessee in 1916. Friends called her ‘Fanny’, but to the music-loving world she was known as Dinah Shore. She altered her […]
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The many loves of Lana Turner.
LANA TURNER (1921-95) 1936: Wayne Morris, who would become a fighter pilot hero in World War Two, was Lana’s first Hollywood crush. 1937: Ronald Reagan was her first studio-arranged romance, although it is generally believed that their relationship did not go beyond a few horse-riding outings. However, […]
Bugsy and Virginia – a Hollywood romance?
New York crime boss Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano initially sent Benjamin ‘Bugsy’ Siegel out to California in 1937 to set up a horse-racing wire service on the West Coast for the National Crime Syndicate. Once in Los Angeles, however, Bugsy set to work infiltrating the movie unions. He also controlled […]