Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dinner at Eight (Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer). An aging film actor, planning to recoup his fortunes on the stage; Lord & Lady Ferncliffe, just over from London and on their way to Florida; a thick-skinned tycoon named Dan Packard and his Tenth Avenue wife; Dr. and Mrs. Talbot; an elderly actress, Carlotta Vance, trying to squeeze an income out of her stocks: these, with her husband, her daughter, Paula, and her daughter's pleasant young fiance are the people for whom Mrs. Millicent Jordan has her cook concoct an aspic in the shape of a British lion, with flags...
...declared that Hitler at that time associated with Viennese Jews, condemned Russian pogroms because "one can hate in the individual but not in the mass." In 1909 Hanisch & Hitler lived on public charity, later on made small sums by selling Christmas cards which Hitler painted. Once after seeing a film Hitler remained highly excited for days. Questioned about it, he explained: "I saw a demagog haranguing his followers! That was great! That was magnificent...
...Said Film Actress Helen Hayes to Manhattan reporters: "I hope to be able to make Hollywood pay its toll by using the 'movie name' Hollywood has given me to lure into the theatre many people who will attend only out of curiosity to see a 'movie star' in the flesh. If the George Arlisses, the Ann Hardings and the Lionel and John Barrymores should do the same thing, there would be no need of worrying about the rejuvenation of the theatre. In a year it would be completely rejuvenated...
When counsel for World Heavyweight Champion Primo Carnera told Federal Referee Peter B. Olney that his client had mistaken the date of his bankruptcy hearing in Manhattan, gone off on a vacation. Referee Olney was annoyed, set a later date. Counsel explained that Carnera had to fulfill a film contract in Hollywood at that time. Stormed Referee Olney: "I don't give a damn if he has . . . he'll have to be here. He must learn that he cannot run around bumble-headed...
...Menlo Park, Calif, last week Leon F. Douglass, inventor, proudly told the Press a shocker. He had wanted someone for an acting job. The job was to play opposite a 12-ft. octopus in an underwater "death" struggle which he wanted to film with his "inverted periscope" cinecamera. Inventor Douglass' pretty daughter Florence, 17, volunteered. First time she dove into the tank the octopus was unimpressed. Next time the monster, as desired, slithered its eight long tentacles around her body, glued them tight with each one's double row of suckers. Father Douglass filmed breathlessly, finished his reel...