Word: belasco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore), and by detailing the way he discovers a lingerie model named Mildred Plotka (Carole Lombard), turns her into Lily Garland the Great Actress, bullies her and loses her to Hollywood. Thereafter Jaffe, who resembles Morris Gest, Richard Bennett, Josef von Sternberg and the late David Belasco, produces a succession of failures, ends up in Chicago with money troubles...
Nicholas Stephanos Vasilakos echoes with more than sentiment to some persons. It echoes with romance to me and many others who have bought the wares of this peanut and pop corn vendor. Across "the Avenue" "David Belasco's" theatre rests. Many a romantic couple have before or after the show bought of the man on Pennsylvania & East Executive Avenues. More romantic, however, have been the purchases of this man in the form of peanuts to be fed to squirrels and pigeons across the way, as cater-cornered to N. S. V.'s stand is a small park where...
...Samuel Goldwyn. When first seen Nana (Anna Sten) is a scrubgirl, soapily eager to be glamorous and rich. As a first step toward this goal she pushes a drunken soldier into the troutpool of a sidewalk cafe. Her act so delights an impressionable theatrical manager (Richard Bennett) with Belasco manners and Minsky talent, that he makes her his mistress, teaches her to be a torchsinger...
...that reached its height in the spectacular Drury Lane melodramas in which frail heroines were pursued through burning forests and over real waterfalls, in which locomotives and galloping horses cluttered the stage. Nor was there any exhibit to remind spectators of the painfully accurate productions of the late David Belasco. The entire modern school of stage design stems from a reaction against the fustiness of these spectacles...
...Frohman was one of Manhattan's most astute and successful theatrical producers. He started as a mailroom wrapper on the New York Tribune when Horace Greeley owned it, later became advance agent for Callender's Original Georgia Minstrels. When he started producing for himself, he gave David Belasco his first New York job, as stage manager, Frohman managed the late E. H. Sothern for nearly 25 years, leased the old Lyceum Theatre to house his famed stock company which played in such successes as The Wife, Lord Chumley, The Prisoner of Zenda. He also ran the famed...