Word: esther
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...studio head, Louis B. Mayer, as the long-sought successor to the late Irving Thalberg. There are still "tough problems to be solved," Schary told the visiting salesmen, as they gathered for luncheon under thousands of square feet of improbably blue sky (left over from an old Esther Williams picture). But "no company fearing disaster could plan what we have planned...
Cinemermaid Esther Williams announced that she would retire temporarily: she and husband Ben Gage were expecting their first child in August...
...week's end Chambers had his own personal troubles. His wife, driving through Baltimore at dusk to meet him at the railroad station, struck Mrs. Maggie Thomas, 70, who died in a hospital. Esther Chambers was charged with "assaulting, knocking down and causing the death" of Mrs. Thomas, released in $1,000 bail...
...some things are just like the good old lavish days. At Paramount, Cecil B. DeMille is deep in his $3,000,000 Technicolored Samson and Delilah. At MGM, the huge set with swimming pool is kept at a tropically humid temperature for the swimming sequences of the new Technicolored Esther Williams picture (with dance numbers by Busby Berkeley...
...abandon Communism, however, and returned to New York. He had met and married a young labor organizer and painter named Esther Shemitz. They set up housekeeping in a poverty-stricken tenement on the East Side...