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Word: glenda (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...matches in movie houses. Current rumor is that Walt Disney will produce a badminton cartoon in which Mickey Mouse will oppose Donald Duck. In Hollywood, badminton is not only handy as a sport and reducing exercise but also as an excuse for new poses by actresses like Sonja Henie, Glenda Farrell, Joan Crawford, Anita Louise, Simone Simon (see cuts, p. 35). In addition to novelty, badminton has over tennis the advantage that, since the game consists largely of scrambling, the posture of the subject does not, like that of almost any actress photographed with a tennis racquet, reveal that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Badminton's Rebirth | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

...Smart Blonde" is an amusing, fast moving crookfest, with Barton MacLane and Glenda Farrell doing the detecting. Fortunately it is not marred by the tommygun histrionics usual in such pictures. A few witty cracks fly here and there to good effect, and on the whole the picture serves as a mild antidote to premature spring fever...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 3/5/1937 | See Source »

...person of the slightest moral stamina, it ought not to be laughable to see two low fellows trying to drown a middle-aged man, supposedly sick, in a swimming pool. Yet this scene is very funny. So are the results when the villains, now desperate, hire Genevieve (Glenda Farrell) to excite J. J.'s passion, hoping the rise in blood pressure will kill him. But Genevieve falls in love with J. J., divulges the plot and J. J., seriously ill, backs the show with Norma, still unable to sing or dance, playing the lead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 4, 1937 | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

Today and tomorrow the University management offers you "We're in the Money," featuring Joan Blondell, Glenda Farrell, and Hugh Herbert, along with Shirley Temple in "Curly...

Author: By C. C. G., | Title: The Playgoer | 9/20/1935 | See Source »

...Brien is editor of "Manhattan Madness," ultra smart New York periodical. He has been snagged by the Glenda Farrell marital hooks. Horton who owns the magazine attempts to solve the problem by moving O'Brien's alcoholized carcass to Caliente. Here the boys meet Miss Del Rio who dances and has a grudge against O'Brien on account of an uncomplimentary review he once gave her. She takes her revenge by falling in love with him and he reciprocates in his sophisticated way. Amid all this there is the intermittent byplay of Berkeley creations and guitar music...

Author: By S. M. B., | Title: AT THE MET | 6/10/1935 | See Source »

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