Boles' performing career spanned from local opera house to Hollywood's sound stages | Local News
Photo courtesy Dan Perkins Photo courtesy Dan Perkins Courtesy of Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum Women swooned over matinee idol John Boles, who appeared as a handsome suave lover on the silver screen with the most glamorous ladies in Hollywood â his mentor Gloria Swanson, Claire Trevor, Joan Bennett, Lupe Velez, Ida Lupino, Margaret Sullavan, Dixie Lee (Mrs. Bing Crosby), Gloria Stuart (who came out of retirement for âTitanicâ in 1997), Loretta Young, Rosalind Russell in the well-reviewed âCraigâs Wife,â Irene Dunne (who costarred with Boles in âBack ...
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