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Word: floradora (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Floradora Girl (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is a brilliant, animated cartoon of the fashions of the Mauve Decade?a cartoon brought to life by the comic playing of Marion Davies and built around an effervescing, satirical story...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jun. 9, 1930 | 6/9/1930 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Guy Bates Post (Adele Ritchie), 55, oldtime (1893-1918) musical comedy actress (Floradora), onetime wife of Actor Guy Bates Post; and her friend and hostess, Mrs. Doris Murray Palmer, 32; in a double shooting; at Laguna Beach, Calif. Police thought Mrs. Post shot Mrs. Palmer after a quarrel, then spent two hours shopping, trying to calm herself before she returned to the scene of murder, shot herself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: May 5, 1930 | 5/5/1930 | See Source »

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