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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was another thing Tex McCrary didn't want: to be known merely as beauteous Jinx Falkenburg's husband. Last week he fixed that one too, by getting Columbia Pictures to release Jinx from her movie contract. (She had to promise to say nothing against Columbia in the two years her contract had to run. "That spiked an article she was doing for Collier's,'" said Tex. "She was going to say she'd graduated from the movies, where she had made straight...
...Stanislavsky, promptly signed Danny for the role of the swishy photographer in Lady in the Dark. More than once. Danny stopped the show. More than once he came close to stealing it from Gertrude Lawrence. After Let's Face It, Hollywood was inevitable. Danny signed a five-year contract with Sam Goldwyn, promised to make a picture a year...
...apply for a job in the chorus of the Broadway musical Sing Out the News, and pretty enough to get it. Singing and dancing for a couple of months, she returned to high school to graduate with high marks, went back to Broadway musicals and ultimately a Hollywood contract...
...worst was definitely over. The nation, worried for months by strike talk, crippled for weeks by strike realities, could settle down to business-at least until further developments on a threatened telephone walkout and the possibility that John L. Lewis might call a coal strike when his contract expires, April...
...Lillie Add, their contract (cancellable on a week's notice) provided $25 a week base pay, time and a half for all work over 60 hours, a furnished private room, nutritious diet, use of the telephone, sick leave, church time, uniforms, a week's vacation with pay. For Mrs. Bettman, it provided at least the promise of steady help...