Word: bettye
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Betty Grable was the year's biggest box-office draw, exhibitors reported to Motion Picture Herald. She was the first female winner since Shirley Temple (1935-38). Second biggest: Bob Hope. Still among the top ten: Captain Clark Gable.
Professor Redding's book, published in 1942, is No Day of Triumph (Harper; $3), a study of Southern Negro life beginning with Redding's own family back-ground and finally based on a recent six-month tour of the South. No Day scored over 29 competitors, including North...
For it is curative to be referred to by Louis B. Mayer as "my prestige star," to occupy Norma Shearer's former dressing room, to know that your next contract will raise you from a (reputed) $2,500 a week (plus stentorian bonuses) to a salary more suited to...
New Novelists. It was a bumper year for best-selling first novelists (most of them women) and writers with one or two books already published who switched from the remainder lists to the best-seller lists. Among the former were: Betty Smith, whose A Tree Grows in Brooklyn ($2.75) sold...
The first one gives Betty Fields a chance to act, and on that account alone is top-notch. It could even be a very good story if the moral, Beauty is a Force Within You, weren't pointed too obviously and too often. The second is also about a Force...