Word: filmland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Tati's tribute to early filmland farce, which differed generally from the modern product because it was not altogether unconscious, was apt as well as flattering. Some Like It Hot, unlike most recent domestic attempts, follows the tradition of Mack Sennett and Charlie Chaplin that Tati revered. It's a welcome arrival on the local scene...
...Screen Extras Guild reports that some producers of westerns are chiseling on their cowboys by taking them off their hosses too often and photographing them on foot. Cause of the beef: filmland cowpokes get $29.04 per eight-hour day in the saddle, only...
Died. Marshall Neilan, 65, live-it-up Hollywood director of the silent era (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Tess of the D'Urbervilles, Hell's Angels); of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. One of the most lavish spenders in filmland history, "Mickey"' Neilan regularly exhausted a drawing account of $10,000 a week...
Manhattan gossipists worked hard to fill the gaps made in their columns by the departure for Hollywood of robustious (40-18-35½) Actress Jayne (Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?) Mansfield. With a truffle hound's nose for publicity, Jayne quickly set filmland agog by flapping her charms at anyone who could rush her into print or picture. Lunching with the New York Herald Tribune's Hollywood Legman Joe Hyams, Jayne, bubbling over her first film stardom ("Everybody calls me Miss Mansfield") in a movie to be released under the titillating title of The Girl...
Died. Jean Hersholt, 69, veteran Hollywood character actor, best remembered for his kindly radio portrayal of Dr. Christian; after long illness; in Hollywood. A sometime painter, book collector and translator (a complete English version of Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales), Danish-born Actor Hersholt became one of filmland's best-loved personalities...