Word: dreaming
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...town had figured that Wilbur was crazy when he set out to build his dream hotel three years ago. He had done pretty well before that. He is a greying, boyish man who worked his way from bus boy to crap dealer to the ownership of a string of San Diego cocktail bars, moved to Las Vegas (in 1941) and blossomed into a full-fledged Nevada gambling impresario. But his Desert Inn sounded just too rich...
...sense, it was. Before he got it built he had to borrow huge sums, much of the money from a set of Detroit and Cleveland sharpies. But he fabricated his gaudy dream, kept a healthy third interest, and was still out in front as manager, diamond-studded cuff links glittering, when the last carpet was tacked down...
Then he falls asleep to dream of a beautiful blonde, other women, and his future. Awakened by the radio, he wanders to the window and sees Susan outside, having a very good time with another...
Menotti has two producers who leave him strictly to his own devices. These include an unblushing use of dramatic tricks such as spooky seances, shattering windowpanes, hypnotism, magicians, eerie dream dances...
...been nine years since she zoomed into Hollywood. All but bursting with vitality, she tore into her film career with a bellicose zeal and a tomboyish winsomeness that suggested a cross between one of the Furies and Little Orphan Annie. Last year, having made two duds in a row (Dream Girl and Red, Hot and Blue), she decided, probably correctly: "My career needed a jolt...