Word: haling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hear these words. If you have not seen this Silly Symphony and hate all movies and the world, go to the University exactly at 2. or 5 or 8 p. m., and you should be amused for fifteen minutes. Stella Helen Hayes Victor Robert Montgomery "Mom" Louise Closser Hale Jerry John Beal "Pop" Henry Travers
Michael Matsakas has never sold a painting, never exhibited one in a gallery, never painted a nude. He had long looked upon Mr. Rockefeller as a great man. Last autumn Michael Matsakas painted his portrait from a photograph, a firmly painted, kindly portrait of a hale old man wearing a dark blue tie. For a Christmas present he sent it to Mr. Rockefeller with a note, "I always have been a great admirer of yours and the wonderful things you have done for humanity." A month later, just after New Year's Day, he got it back with...
...Jean Harlow (Kitty Packard), Wallace Beery (Dan Packard), Lee Tracy (Renault's agent), Billie Burke (Millicent Jordan), Edmund Lowe (Dr. Talbot) and Karen Morley (Mrs. Talbot), supported by such $1,000-a-week celebrities as Phillips Holmes, Jean Hersholt, Madge Evans, Grant Mitchell and the late Louise Closser Hale, perform brilliantly and avoid each others' toes. Good shot: Kitty Packard making up her mind to give her maid a bracelet. Paddy, the Next Best Thing (Fox) is very clearly Fox's notion of the next best thing to Metro's Peg 0' My Heart...
...only one miserable old lady for her exaggerated interest in her sons. Another Language shows the more complicated problems that can arise when an entire family of spineless offspring falls under the ugly domination of a stupid, whining matriarch. With two or three exceptions, old Mrs. Hallam (Louise Closser Hale), her sons and her daughters-in-law are as genuinely disagreeable a tribe as the cinema has ever dared exhibit to its audiences. Victor Hallam (Robert Montgomery) and his pretty young wife (Helen Haves) get back from their elopement just in time for one of the Hallam family...
Died. Louise Closser Hale, 60, stage & cinema character actress, author of novels, short stories, travel memoirs; of heart failure following heat prostration; in Hollywood. Since her earliest successes in Candida (1903-04), Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch (1907-10), she, like her longtime friend Marie Dressier (see p. 23), usually portrayed old ladies. Unlike Marie Dressler's, her old ladies were usually gentle, whimsical, timid...