Word: garbos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...paid the two biggest salaries of all: $1,296,503 in salary and bonus to Production Executive Louis B. Mayer, $694,123 to Loew's Vice President J. Robert Rubin. Loew's President Nicholas M. Schenck got $489,602. Highest paid performers: Actress Greta Garbo, $472,499; Actor Fredric March (who deserted Hollywood for Broadway), $484,687. No. 1 Box-office Star Shirley Temple drew $110,256 and her mother got $52,166 as her guardian. Notable absence from the list: Mae West, who was paid $323,000 in 1936. Perennial cinema dark horses: Theatre Operators Spyros...
...Wanted to Be an Actress is acceptable enough. But beyond that, the reader draws a blank. Either Katharine Cornell, in her devotion to her profession, has lacked time to study things and people or, having done so, she is resolved to keep mum. Dozens of names, from Greta Garbo's to Alexander Woollcott's, from David Belasco's to Orson Welles's stud the pages of her book, but none of them-not even her husband's, Director Guthrie McClintic -ever becomes a face. Toward other actors she is virtually all smiles. About nothing, about...
Married. Ina Fagan Whitaker Gilbert ("Ina Claire"), 46, stage & screen star, onetime wife of the late John ("Garbo") Gilbert; and William Ross Wallace Jr., 40, able San Francisco attorney; she for the third time; he for the first; in Salt Lake City, Utah...
...smuggled in a dwarf for Snow White, a wig for Shirley Temple, shoes for Garbo, size 9, a necktie for Charlie McCarthy, a rattle for Mickey Mouse and a corncob pipe for Popeye...
...broken Garbo accept, Miss Gulbrandsen, now performing nightly at the Boston Garden, proudly announced, "I knit sweaters and mittens," but did not say whether they were destined for Hanover...