Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...gives at others' expense, was judged in Manhattan's City Court to owe a $2,980.74 jewelry bill, ordered to fork over the $996.47 in her checking account to be applied against the judgment. Elsa said that she had helped sell a $30,000 emerald to Cinema Producer Jack Warner, took the $2,980.74 in jewelry instead of a commission. "There are dozens of society women," she said, "who sell jewels on commission...
Married. Private Red Skelton, 31, limber-legged, extroverted radio and cinema comic; and Georgia Maureen Davis, 23, ex-photographer's model; he for the second time, she for the first; in Beverly Hills. Second item on the bridegroom's furlough schedule: having his tonsils...
Married. James ("Jimmy") Dunn, 43, now taking a second hitch at cinema stardom in A Tree Grows in Brooklyn; and Edna Rush, 37, radio singer (Philadelphia's "Miss Television" of 1931); he for the third time, she for the second; in Philadelphia. Bridal attendant: A Tree's Author Betty Smith...
...elemental plot of the Nolan family growing up in Williamsburg, there is a great opportunity for characterization at the happy expense of the narrative force which the cinema more often emphasizes. Peggy Ann Garner and Ted Donaldson come through with character jobs as Francie and Neeley that without a doubt redeem any of the picture's tedium...
...garters. What do you want . . . my scanties?" Said practical Photographer Carroll: "No thanks, but I sure could use that cap. . . ." He explained: "I've got a cute wife back in Boston who won't think I'm so crazy." Lieut. Colonel William ("Willy") Wyler, peacetime cinema director (Mrs. Miniver, Wuthering Heights), wartime director of the combat film, The Memphis Belle, made his first visit in 15 years to his birthplace - the city of Mulhouse in Alsace-Lorraine. There he was welcomed by Madame Henriette, fiftyish, manager of his late father's dry-goods store...