Word: harlows
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...aristocrat, Ella Rice, and headed for Hollywood. A gangling Texas prodigy, he broke into moviemaking by producing a flop or two and then, with a combination of gambler's profligacy and an obsessive genius for detail, started turning out hits (Hell's Angels, Scarface, The Outlaw) and stars (Jean Harlow. Pat O'Brien. Jane Russell...
...Circus Oct. 17-19 Ninotchka Greta Garbo Anna Karenina Oct. 20-23 Lolita Peter Sellers The Night of the Iguana Richard Burton Oct. 24-26 Captains Courageous Spencer Tracy Mutiny on the Bounty Clark Gable Oct. 27-30 Grand Hotel Greta Garbo Dinner at Eight Jean Harlow Oct. 31-Nov. 2 San Francisco Clark Gable North by Northwest Cary Grant
...conscious, and occasionally unwitting, comment on the artificiality of movie-reality and its influence over its audience. And so we see Hermie and his sidekicks going to the movies-Bette Davis in Now, Voyager is on the screen-and trying to feel up two teenage imitations of Jean Harlow. In the next scene, as Hermie prepares to visit his war bride, he is rehearsing lines like "Laughter becomes you" to get him through his embarrassment. His efforts to ape affectedly "adult" cultural pretenses are in direct contrast to those of modern movie audiences, where more often it seems the adults...
Walsh flatly stated that the Council had no legal authority over Harlow anyway and that matter would have to be settled in court...
...meantime, however, Harlow will go on asking for "voluntary" rent increases from his tenants...