Word: giddiest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sort of role that Rudolph Valentino, the greatest movie lover of them all, would have enjoyed. The role: an immigrant Italian tango-dancer rises from a gardener's job in Manhattan's Central Park to the giddiest heights of Hollywood stardom, and then dies at the age of 31. But independent Producer Edward (The Count of Monte Cristo) Small sees the story as a box-office natural. For eleven years Small has been getting his name in the papers year in & year out by promising to film Valentino's life...
Last week, while a cold wave gripped most of the U. S., Miami Beach and the rest of resort Florida was in full hothouse bloom, all figures indicating the biggest, giddiest season since Depression. Train and plane reservations were being booked two to four weeks in advance; 100% bet ter business over Christmas than in 1938 was reported by Seaboard Air Line Rail way; bus travel was up at least 25%; $3,000,000 more real estate had been sold in 1939 than in 1938 in Miami Beach, where sites were priced at from $800 to $1,000 a front...