Word: ann
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Different people have different hates about the movies. Some say the great old actors are vanishing from the scene, and in their stead are appearing a group of highly publicized, incompetent "starlets"; the John Barrymores are giving way to the Ann Sheridans. Home blame the script writers, some the directors. But though each of these arguments may be perfectly valid in regard to specific faults of the movies, they do not arrive at the basic cause for Hollywood's declining standards. This fundamental cause is the belief shared by practically everyone in Holywood, that the movie-going public...
Charlie Chaplin, plagued by Joan Berry's latest claim (that her eight-month-old Carol Ann is "destitute"), inquired what had happened to the $10,700 he had thus far contributed to the infant's support. He also let it be known that he and his 19-year-old expectant Wife Oona (O'Neill) are summering at ex-wife Paulette Goddard's farm at Mount...
...West Point. Married. Barbara Jean Douglas, 21, only daughter of Plane Tycoon Donald Wills Douglas; and Lieut. William Bruce Arnold, 25, second son of General Henry ("Hap") Arnold, Army Air Forces chief; in Los Angeles. Married. Band Leader James ("Kay") Kyser, 38, schmaltzy "Professor of Musical Knowledge"; and Georgia Ann ("Gorgeous Georgia") Carroll, 24, onetime highest-paid Powers model ("The Chesterfield Girl"), now Kyser's sweet-voiced vocalist; both for the first time; in Las Vegas, Nev. Died. Josef Beck, 49, Poland's unpopular, unscrupulous, prewar Foreign Minister; after long illness; near Bucharest. A prot...
Last week, when the child (renamed Patricia Ann) was ten months old, the Hardwigs' trial began on their $500,000 suit against South Hoover Hospital for the "shock and excitement" Mrs. Hardwig had suffered from the discovery. "We love her," said they of Patricia Ann, "but we don't feel...
There is also a prolonged slapstick struggle with murderers aboard an old ship. And at one nightmarish juncture M.G.M.'s scripters manage to hang Skelton, Rags Ragland, Ann Rutherford and Jean Rogers, in a gently swinging human chain, from the top of an elevator shaft. High comic moment: Red Skelton, as anchor-man for this gibbering pendulum, decides to rest his hands by letting go and standing on the shoulders of Rags Ragland, who is desperately clinging to Skelton's ankles...