Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Actor Gary Cooper formed Cinema Artists Corp. and made Along Came Jones. Then he dissolved Cinema Artists -and stands to make at least $40,000 after paying the capital-gains tax. If he had made a picture for a major studio, he would have been paid a salary of $175,000, and then paid out most of it in taxes...
Born. To Veronica Lake (real name: Constance Keane de Toth), 25, cinemac tress who popularized the sheep-dog hairdo, and Andre de Toth, 32, Hungarian-born cinema director: their first child, a son (she has a daughter by a previous marriage) ; in Hollywood. Name Andre Michael de Toth II. Weight...
Heroine. Olga Tschechowa,* nee Knipper, born in the Russian Caucasus, fled in 1921 to Germany, where she became a cinema celebrity and ostensibly a great chum of Adolf Hitler. All during the war, said the Russians last week, she had really been a Russian spy, using her chauffeur to get through to Moscow the tiny, gold-covered notebooks in which she jotted the requests which Nazi bigwigs wanted her to put to Adolf. During the battle of Berlin, she hid in a bomb shelter, was rescued, in the best movie spy tradition, by a Red Army colonel...
MOST SECRET - Nevil Shute - Morrow ($2.50). This slickly competent wartime adventure story is put together on such sound box-office principles that it might do as a cinema vehicle for Errol Flynn. It has all the required ingredients : commando raid, secret agent, love interest, a London blitz, shiny-eyed self-sacrifice, and a gallant English officer who wants to kill Germans because a bomb's blast killed his pet rabbit, Geoffrey. The publishers boast that three of British naval-officer-novelist Shute's last five books (Ordeal, Pied Piper, Pastoral) have been selected by "major book clubs...
...laugh by just saying: "Holy cow!" But the most expert of all is Shirley Temple herself, now a first-rate comedienne and a very attractive young lady. While spending her early teens in comparative obscurity, Shirley forgot none of the tricks that once made her the cinema's most dreaded scene thief...