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...Joan Crawford, who had just won her first Oscar, sued to divorce her third husband. Actors Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Franchot Tone had each lasted almost four years. Actor Philip Terry and she separated last December after three years and five months. Said she, he was cruel and inhuman...
...trying to crash the screen, he was given his first sizable Hollywood role in 1931 (The Easiest Way, with Constance Bennett). By 1932 he was ranked among the top ten U.S. money-making stars. During the next decade he played opposite such glittering screen favorites as Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner. By 1934 he had made It Happened One Night, with Claudette Colbert, and with the won the Academy award...
...Crawford H. Greenewalt, the greying, hawk-nosed director and chemist of du Pont (son-in-law of Irenee du Pont) who got the Hanford project in production...
Divorced. By Hattie McDaniel, 46, amiable, enormous Negro cinemactress (Gone with the Wind): her third husband, James Lloyd Crawford, 49, real estate salesman; after four and a half years of marriage, no children; in Hollywood. She said he was jealous of her career, once threatened to kill...
...Attitude? These critical straws from outside were not the only indications of how the wind was blowing. Onetime N.A.M. president Frederick Coolidge Crawford, bitterly hated by organized labor, but proud of his personal labor relations in his own open shop plants of Thompson Products, suggested that 1) it was management's job to increase productivity; 2) management was often at fault for labor troubles. Said he: "You sit in your office wondering what your workers are thinking. Do you know that the answer to your human-relations problem lies within the four walls of your plant? Go into your...