Word: baba
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Bob Gregory, 25, claimant to the European middleweight catch-as-catch-can wrestling title, to "Princess Baba," Valeria Brooke, 21, daughter of Sir Charles Vyner Brooke, white Rajah of Sarawak;* in London. The betrothal, which followed a whirling courtship, was opposed by Princess Baba's parents, but defended by her on the grounds that her sister. Princess Pearl, had previously married Jazz-Bandleader Harry...
...region in southwestern Borneo about the size of England & Wales, given to Princess Baba's great-great-uncle Sir James Brooke for supressing a native revolt...
...Baba Goes to Town (Twentieth Century-Fox) transports taw-eyed, prancing little Eddie Cantor to ancient Bagdad, where he physics the ailing realm of Sultan Roland Young with panaceas borrowed from the New Deal. Haroun-al-Cantor's venture into political satire is tuneful, gay, imaginatively written, generously produced. The cumulative effect of its guying would not nettle even the income tax bureau, for Funnyman Cantor pokes lightly at an array of straw...
...date. Cantor is a star-struck autograph hunter on his way to Hollywood for a rubberneck vacation among the famous faces. He stumbles on the desert location of a cinema company making an episode from the Arabian Nights, becomes an extra, falls asleep in the jar reserved for Ali Baba...
...September 1936 under a three-picture arrangement for a reputed $1,000,000, after having spent the previous seven years with Samuel Goldwyn and United Artists. He bought his release from the Goldwyn contract when Goldwyn failed to buy Three Men on a Horse for him. AH Baba Goes to Town is his first film under the Twentieth Century-Fox agreement...