Word: anna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best U. S. performance of the year by an actress-upon a young woman who a year and a half ago was unknown in the U. S. and had never appeared in the cinema anywhere. She was MGM's Luise Rainer. The role for which she was rewarded-Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld-was the second of her cinema career. In addition to giving the best performance of the year in The Great Ziegfeld, Luise Rainer (rhymes with "shiner") gave highly distinguished ones in her first picture, Escapade, in which, newly arrived from Vienna, she became a star...
...bulky herd of Rockefeller Center office buildings, Mrs. Roosevelt had arrived a little late and out of breath at her own party. Its purpose was to inform the world that Ladies' Home Journal will appear next week with the first installment of "This Is My Story," Anna Eleanor Roosevelt Roosevelt's autobiography. These memoirs were billed as the first ever -written by a First Lady while resident in the White House. The Journal editors promised that Mrs. Roosevelt's writings would be "unusually frank." The stark honesty of the first installment, released at the announcement party, made...
...mother [Anna Hall of New York City] was always a little troubled by my lack of beauty, and I knew it, as a child senses those things. She tried very hard to bring me [the eldest child] up so well that my manners would in some way compensate for my looks, but her efforts only made me keenly conscious of my shortcomings. . . . My father [Elliott Roosevelt, brother of Theodore Roosevelt], charming, good-looking, loved by all who came in contact with him. high or low, had a background and upbringing which were alien to her pattern. He had a physical...
...marrying wealthy husbands. Though Ganna Walska married four, she never persuaded a large public that she could sing. When, on the other hand, Mrs. Clarence Mackay sings in public, it is no occasion for sorrow. Though handsome Mrs. Mackay's voice has faded since she ceased being Anna Case, she still uses it with the intelligence that won her honors at the Metropolitan Opera. Last week in Chicago another wealthy woman sang three concerts so brilliantly that she brought her audiences to their feet cheering...
...directed over one hundred short talkies for Warner Brothers. A 5800 mile drive through the stock theatres of New England last summer ended two years of talent scouting for Twentieth Century - Fox, and after whipping "Come Across" into shape he will head straight for Hollywood. When he took "Anna Christie" to London in 1923 he picked up a lot of information about the English stage which will be put to use in the trans-oceanic episodes of the Pudding show...