Word: bennett
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Maud Potter de Reuter Bennett, 80, Philadelphia-born arbitress of continental elegance; in Paris. She was hostess for and later wife of James Gordon Bennett Jr. in his Paris home, Versailles lodge, Beaulieu villa and on his yacht Lysistrata, journalistic aide to the absolute monarch of the New York Herald, whose feats and beats (most famed: Stanley's "discovery" of Livingstone) made journalistic history...
...Coburn), a garrulous, fabulous old Southern colonel who descends on a small city in Georgia and, before he has finished, practically turns the place upside down. The picture depends mostly upon the colonel's warlike antics and vocabulary, and upon some mild byplay involving William Eythe and Joan Bennett as newspaper reporters. The local color possibilities were enormous, but the producer and director of this picture evidently didn't think them worth the trouble. Most of the characters talk and act like damyankees; the scenery is strictly studio-lot Georgian; there are apparently not more than a couple...
...would be cut off forever. Said one: "It's like asking a man to have a drink and watching him take the bottle. We thought UNO wanted about 300 acres." Cried J. David Finger, operator of a flying school at Westchester Airport: "I got chased out of Floyd Bennett Field when the Navy took over. I got chased out of Idlewild when LaGuardia wanted it. If I get chased out of here I swear I'll go to Mexico." A dubious housewife, who guessed UNO wouldn't want her 100-year-old house, asked: "If I stay...
...Alley. But last week, Abe agreed that his stuff was too good to keep. He began a $3,000-a-week job writing a new CBS comedy show (Holiday & Co.) on which he will air some of his songs. He has also teamed up with Publisher Bennett (Try and Stop Me) Cerf to put them in book form and he has accepted an offer from Decca to record his burlesques of the June-moon school of song composers...
...first stage experience as prop boy in an Akron stock company. He had ups & downs on Broadway and in stock. Then, after several years of trying to crash the screen, he was given his first sizable Hollywood role in 1931 (The Easiest Way, with Constance Bennett). By 1932 he was ranked among the top ten U.S. money-making stars. During the next decade he played opposite such glittering screen favorites as Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner. By 1934 he had made It Happened One Night, with Claudette Colbert, and with...