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Word: ans (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fairbanks was an ordinary young ham, except for his superior muscles, until one day on the stage in a serious moment he recalled a gag another actor had told him offstage a few minutes before. Against his will, irresistibly, he grinned. The effect was electric. Irresistibly Doug Fairbanks grinned and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Last Leap | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Gable's head was in a whirl. Hundreds of the prettiest little girls he had ever seen had surrounded him earlier. One looked at him a little too long, gasped: "Lord, I can't stand this any longer," fainted. An eleven-year-old girl, given a choice of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Selznick read the synopsis. With the sad fate of So Red the Rose in mind, he was in no hurry to pay $50,000 for another Civil War book, and a first novel to boot. But when Selznick International's Board Chairman John Jay ("Jock") Whitney offered to buy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Scarlett. Midway in producing G With the W, Producer Selznick decided he was in no hurry to get going. The novel was too fresh in people's minds, which meant that they would be critical of any picturization no matter how good. Selznick still had nobody to play Scarlett...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Though professional Anglophobes squawked at the choice of an English girl to play Scarlett O'Hara and a chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy at Ocala, Fla. protested, most Southerners were relieved. Their real fear was that a damyankee girl might be given the part.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

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