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Word: cinemactresses (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinema star's face is her fortune, and her agent gets 10%. When early this month Agent Myron Selznick tried to double Cinemactress Loretta Young's salary (about $35,000 a picture) and get her the right to work for other studios than Twentieth Century-Fox,* outraged Producer Joseph M. Schenck ordered him off the lot. Last week observers thought this tiff might have reverberations: As new president of the Association of Motion Picture Producers, Inc., forceful Producer Schenck could influence other executives to follow his lead. The Selznick agency, Producer Schenck said, had tried to jack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Selznick v. Schenck | 2/28/1938 | See Source »

While reporters and photographers clustered around Cinemactress Lupe Velez as she detrained in Manhattan last week with a shivering Chihuahua toy dog named Sophie, the 31st U. S. President created no stir at all leaving the same train. Citizen Herbert Hoover of Palo Alto, Calif, was bound for Belgium, for his first visit since he served as its unsalaried Wartime Relief Administrator. Meantime, Publisher Charles F. Scott returned from a visit to Mr. Hoover in Palo Alto to break in his Iola (Kans.) Register an authentic scoop about the only living ex-President. Publisher Scott's news was that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RELIEF: Separate Account | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

...last decade, Cinemactress Joan Crawford has been hushaby lady to millions for whom dreams at prevailing box-office prices are the only escape from failure and mediocrity. Her partner in romance is usually some slick-haired reigning actor. In Mannequin, crinkly-eyed, roughhewn Spencer Tracy seems ill at ease, especially with dialogue lines like "somebody hit me with a hypo full of love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 24, 1938 | 1/24/1938 | See Source »

...Madison Square Garden announced that Skater Henie in person would appear in Manhattan this month in a skating spectacle called The Holly-wood Ice Revue, her admirers stampeded the Garden box office, took away $10.000 worth of tickets during the first day of the advance sale. Remembering well that Cinemactress Henie, had recently sustained a slight concussion when she toppled onto her head during the filming of Happy Landing, Garden officials promptly cabled Lloyd's of London to ask for a $250,000 accident-insurance policy. Of the long procession of sport figures-from Dempsey to Vast, the wonder...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Sonja | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

Radio's glibbest cinemagpie is Jimmy Fidler, whose broadcasts of Hollywood gossip are sponsored by Procter & Gamble Co. (Drene Shampoo). Last week Cinemactress Constance Bennett de la Falaise de la Coudraye sued Fidler, sponsor, et al. for libel, asking $250,000 damages. Flip Fidlerism: that Connie had snubbed Comedienne Patsy Kelly on a Hal Roach set; that studio workmen, Patsy's pals, bought flowers for her, none for Connie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Libel | 1/17/1938 | See Source »

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