Word: fades
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Cagney: As the capstone to Warners' build-up of Ann Sheridan, the fade-out required Cagney to observe: "You and your 14-carat oomph!" When Cinemactor Cagney protested the line, Producer Mark Hellinger bet him $100 that audiences would give the gag the loudest laugh of the film. A few days after the preview, Producer Hellinger found Cagney's check for $100 in the mail...
...that would authorize the appropriation. Last week the bill reached the Senate. Gallantly Oklahoma's Senator Elmer Thomas led a fight for life for the U. S. Film Service, strove to get the $106,400 restored to the bill. Senators voted it down. It looked like a fade-out for the U. S. Film Service...
...following 34 years Willie Hoppe walked 50,000 miles around billiard tables, played against Nicholas Longworth before President Taft, was the butt of quips by Humorist Samuel Clemens, saw Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, and other great sport figures pass their peak, fade out of competition...
Down the church aisle strides Crusader Britton, dragging the bad girl. She tells all. The good girl realizes what a viper the publisher is. The bad girl marries him anyhow - to give her child a name. The fade-out shows Crusader Britton pushing away a montage of salacious magazines...
...starry-eyed few thousand owners of the latest fangled radio sets in areas around New York City, Boston, Washington, Columbus (Ohio), Chicago and Milwaukee, nowadays enjoy radio entertainment that is static-free, interference-free, does not wobble, fade or burst at the seams. The enthusiasts say that they hear music faithful to the topmost tweet, the bottommost woof; that speech seems to come from the next chair, instead of the next telephone booth; that if an announcer should scratch a match, listeners would hear it burst into flame; that between numbers there is no hum, no crackle, just black, velvety...