Word: glorias
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ringing a musty doorbell in the hope of finding shelter from a thunderstorm. The door is opened by a butler (Boris Karloff) whose hair is unbrushed but whose face looks as though he had combed it with a threshing machine. In the old dark house, the motorists (Raymond Massey, Gloria Stuart, Melvyn Douglas) are insulted by their hosts, a family of Femms who are living in seclusion to avoid being hanged for murder. While the Femms and their guests are dining on cold roast beef, boiled potatoes and stale bread, more motorists arrive, a Welsh millionaire (Charles Laughton...
...Gloria Hollister, a comely assistant handling the telephone aboard the Freedom, asked: "Can you give the light a color...
...Saturday gravure have been supplanted by chaste heads-&-shoulders-in a recent issue those of Alfred Emanuel Smith. Composographs (faked pictures) are permanently outlawed. Photographs of dead bodies must not be "horrible." Fiction serials are still as sexy as those of the average tabloid. Sample title: "The Chastity of Gloria Boyd...
...Gloria bit and snapped at people's legs when angered while walking on all fours. A behavior practically identical with that of a puppy...
...sent her to Berlin to make pictures in Russian. Her work in Karamazov got her a UFA contract. She made two pictures in German, then a French version of Karamazov after studying French for three weeks. To convince Producer Goldwyn she took a Berlin screen test-a bit from Gloria Swanson's role in Indiscretion, which she recited in English. Anna Sten, 22, came to the U. S. accompanied by her German husband (Dr. Eugen Franke) but not by her Russian dog, Drushka ("Little Friend''). Said she (in German): "The night I was leaving he [Drushka...