Word: griffith
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When motion pictures began to speak, more than one star of the silent screen, e.g., Corinne Griffith, John Gilbert, turned out to have a boondocks twang or a reedy pitch, and was never heard from again. But to Ronald Colman, whose English accent and pleasingly low register were envied from Metro to Paramount, the coming of sound meant second wind for one of the cinema's longest and most unvaryingly successful careers...
...barrel in this case is the U.S. Air Force, and Will Stockdale (Andy Griffith) is a pippin. The hillbilly is so dumb he thinks R.O.T.C. is a disease; but he like to bust, he's that crazy about "thuh Ayuh Fowerce." After his first visit to the mess hall, he happily hollers, "Nevah had sech a fill a beans in mah whole lahf...
Oldtime Cinemactress Corinne Griffith, 58, in her heyday the eye-filling "orchid lady of the screen," revealed that the bloom was off her 22-year marriage to garrulous George Preston Marshall, onetime Washington laundryman and owner of the Redskins pro football team. Corinne, a West Coast realtor, will file for divorce, told a reporter: "There is no marital bliss in being 3,000 miles apart. And as hard as I tried, I just couldn't learn to play football." Promoter Marshall, for once, had no comment...
Started by Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin and D. W. Griffith, United Artists had been skidding for years, was on the verge of bankruptcy because its two surviving owners. Chaplin and Pickford. could not agree on how to run it. Krim agreed to take over, but drove a hard bargain. He and Benjamin got control of the company for nothing. If they turned a profit within three years, they were to get half the 20,000 shares outstanding at $1 a share...
Mark up victory for Khrushchev and Bulganin, who have stampeded us into drives lor higher salaries for scientists, teachers and generals. We are destroying our own economy and building that of half-civilized nations through purchases and loans for fear they will gravitate into the Soviet orbit. GARDNER GRIFFITH Phoenix, Ariz...