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Inspired by the discovery of paintings showing the fur trade, "Across the Wide Missouri" follows the climax and downward spiral of a gigantic enterprise. Beaver, a million coats and hats, was the lure. From 1832 to 1838 the industry reached a peak in both volume and competition. John Jacob Astor's American Fur Company pulled all the steps to squash its competitors and they all combined against Britain's Hudson's Bay Company. Willful trapping destroyed the beaver, glutted the market and prices dropped. In a short time Astor was left holding the field...
...Hollywood, Producer Sam Goldwyn got good news: the U.S. Treasury reported that he had overpaid his 1945 income tax by $383,4071n Manhattan, gourd-shaped John Jacob Astor, 35, well-known for his ancestors, lay abed with cracked vertebrae, after skidding on a polished floor and bumping downstairs...
...John Jacob Astor and Mrs. Elizabeth Cullum, a granddaughter of Alexander Hamilton...
Born. To Count Court von Haugwitz-Reventlow, 52, and his second heiress-wife, Margaret Drayton Reventlow, 31 (great-granddaughter of Mrs. William Astor): a son, her first, his second (his first was by Heiress Barbara Hutton); in Newport, R.I. Name: Richard Court. Weight...
Cynthia (MGM) is a timid smalltown girl (Elizabeth Taylor) in distress. Born delicate, she is kept sickly by her own unhappiness, her frustrated, overanxious parents (George Murphy, Mary Astor) and her pompous doctor-uncle (Gene Lockhart), who bullies the whole family. Music (S. Z. Sakall) and Young Love (James Lydon) arouse in Cynthia a desire to live-and to live like other girls...