Word: butlerism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate by Liberal Senator Manuel Capestany was a proposal to confer upon Good Neighbor Roosevelt the title of "Eminent Citizen of America" in honor of his "historical role in the defense of democratic principles." For Cuba's Fourth there were fireworks, concerts, a banquet for U.S. Ambassador J. Butler Wright, a parade and a National Theatre mass meeting in honor of the U.S. attended by President Laredo Bru and Strong Man Colonel Fulgencio Batista. Well might Cuba honor Eminent Citizen Roosevelt's Administration who in 1934 signed a reciprocal trade treaty which lowered the duty on Cuban sugar...
...copy Gone With the Wind, cinemaddicts jumped to the conclusion that, since his father-in-law is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Vice President Louis Burt Mayer, Producer Selznick would promptly cast two M-G-M stars-probably Clark Gable and Norma Shearer-as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. Instead, Producer Selznick shrewdly announced that he had no idea who would play Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, said he hoped to discover unknown actors for the parts...
...years, the vital question of who would play Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler has stirred controversy in U.S. bars, drawing rooms and dinner tables. Actually tested for the role of Scarlett O'Hara were such various charmers as Tallulah Bankhead, Paulette Goddard, a typist named Margaret Tallichet, a manicurist named Arleen Whelan and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, wife of Mr. Selznick's backer. Mentioned for it were so many other actresses, obscure or celebrated, that Variety cracked that, if all of them attended the premiere, the picture would pay expenses in one performance. Playwright Clare Booth...
Last week, in Hollywood, Producer Selznick finally revealed his plans for Gone With the Wind: production starting this winter; release through M-G-M about Sept. 1, 1939; cost about $1,500,000; Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara to be played by Clark Gable and Norma Shearer...
...Walt Whitman, who testified that "nothing finer did any stage ever exhibit-and my boyish heart and head felt it in every minute cell." A year later, at the height of her fame, she quit the stage to marry the heir to a large Georgia plantation, handsome, dilettante Pierce Butler (no kin to Supreme Court Justice Pierce Butler). Their marriage started badly, and got worse. When Fanny refused to compromise with social conventions, Pierce agreed with his family, who thought he had married beneath him. When Fanny published her U. S. travel impressions, which made a scandalous success...