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...winners: 1) Shirley Temple 2) Clark Gable 3) Fred Astaire & Ginger Rogers 4) Robert Taylor 5) Joe E. Brown 6) Dick Powell 7) Joan Crawford 8) Claudette Colbert 9) Jeanette MacDonald 10) Gary Cooper Shirley Temple's margin over her nearest rival was bigger this year than last. New names among this year's first ten were Taylor, MacDonald and Cooper. Demoted, to the next group of 15 "honor stars," were James Cagney and Wallace Beery. The late Will Rogers...
...romances, "Born to Dance" does not equal "Top Hat," yet still must be considered top-notch entertainment. Without a doubt Eleanor Powell's tap dancing features the picture: in addition, she does so well in the role of the little town girl who makes good that she easily outclasses Ginger Rogers. However, James Stewart, the mellow almost inaudible tenor, is no Astaire, and if it weren't for his ingratiating boyish shyness, he would detract from the film. The clever Reginald Gardinev leads a neat touch with a fantastic impersonation of Stokowski and his baton, an act which he repeats...
Tracing letters sent to Ginger Rogers demanding $5,000 on threat of kidnapping or death. Department of Justice agents trapped Sailor James F. Hall of the Navy aircraft carrier Lexington who explained that he had fallen in love with Cinemactress Rogers after seeing her dance in Follow the Fleet. Campaigning for birth control, Mrs. Thomas Norval Hepburn, mother of Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn, two sons and two other daughters, declared in New Haven, Conn.'s First Methodist Church: "If you aren't frank about sex, your children will never confide in you again. When I explained scientifically and specifically...
Chapter 5. Next year the company did better, ending 1933 with a net loss of $4,384,000. The day President Roosevelt signed the 776 amendment to the Federal Bankruptcy Act (June 1934), RKO filed under the new law. Handsome box-office returns on Katharine Hepburn, Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in 1934 helped RKO to end the year with a net loss of only...
Guaranteed to ease the wandering student gently back into the rigour of academic life after the Thanksgiving respite, the current double bill at the University featuring "Swing Time" with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, and "Wives Never Know" starring Charley Ruggles and Mary Boland, is one of the most entertaining, and colorful of the year...