Word: beene
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Whenever Hollywood's box office slips, as it did last month,* puzzled moviemen ponder such possible causes as the weather, the crops and the local bingo games. Last week a fledgling producer, Novelist Polan (There Goes Lona Henry) Banks, offered a fresher theory: Hollywood has been underestimating the power...
"No other American industry, great or small, has forgotten that women own about 70% of the nation's wealth and control an even greater percentage of its buying. More than 90% of the country's advertising is directed at the woman . . . but postwar [motion] picture advertising has been...
When she is working, 27-year-old Judy Garland, who has been a Hollywood star for 13 years, gets almost twice as much salary as the President of the U.S. Last week Judy was finding her money harder & harder to earn.
Six months ago, she had worked herself to a frazzle, complicated by insomnia and jitters for which she had long been trying to doctor herself. After she had a series of temperamental blowups on the set of Annie Get Your Gun, M-G-M suspended her and tackled the expensive...
This was the deadly sin, punishable by Hollywood's defender of the faith, Louella O. Parsons. Wrote Louella last week in her Hearst gossip column: "This is the first time I have ever publicly spanked Judy, but I can't understand her attitude after all that has been...