Word: garfield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the 1940 Board who will take over the six Executive Board positions today are as follows: Blair Clark, of Princeton New Jersey, will be President; B. Sheffield West, of Minneapolis, Minnesota, Managing Editor; John H. Sisson, of Brookline, Business Manager; Garfield H. Horn, of Long Beach, California, Editorial Chairman; Charles N. Pollak II, of Bronxville, New York, Executive Editor, and Julian E. Agoos, of Brookline, Photographic Chairman. They will serve until February...
They Made Me a Criminal (Warner Bros.) is not, despite its title, a picture about unhappy gangsters. It is a straight forward story of regeneration by fresh air and pure love. Johnnie (John Garfield), a middleweight prize fighter suspected of murder, of which he is innocent rather by good luck than good management, runs away to an Arizona date farm, where he encounters Gloria Dickson and the Dead End kids. Result: he is transformed from a mean-tempered hooligan into a model of good behavior...
Hailed as the No. i male cinema discov ery of 1938 for his performance as Mickey Borden in Four Daughters, Actor John Garfield is a blunt-featured young product of New York City's East Side and The Bronx. A problem child, he was sent at twelve to a school run by Angelo Patri, who allowed him to concentrate on dram atics and English...
When he was 19, Garfield hitchhiked across the U. S., stopping off to work for two months on a California fruit farm and for nine days in an Austin, Tex. jail...
...screen, Actor Garfield, whose first name is really Jules, is undistinguished-looking, slow-spoken and, like many other prosperous young actors, an amateur left-wing politician. His present seven-year Hollywood contract contains a clause permitting him to leave on 60 days' notice whenever he wants to act on Broadway, a privilege of which he has not yet availed himself. His next picture will be Juarez, with Bette Davis and Paul Muni...