Word: havillands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Independent Citizens' Committee of the Arts, Sciences & Professions, Inc., among whose labor statesmen are numbered Cinemactress Olivia de Havilland, Actor Fredric March and Playwright Moss Hart, got into the fray with $1,840 worth of newspaper ads. They urged Americans to contribute to the strikers at General Motors, General Electric, U.S. Steel or "any other struck corporation." (Presumably each strike's issues and merits were beside the point...
...returned to the U.S., not unaware of the fame he had attained but unready for its demands. The people of Albuquerque gave him a $500 wrist watch. Paulette Goddard, Olivia de Havilland and Jinx Falkenburg kissed him, all in one afternoon. Two universities gave him honorary degrees. Admirers sent him apples, pecans, a cowboy belt, a jeep. He won a Pulitzer Prize, and the first Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for war correspondence. His collected G.I. columns, Here Is Your War, sold over a million copies; a second collection, Brave Men, sold 875,000. Hollywood made a movie (soon...
...Celebrities. Hollywood fought glamor with glamor. The Hollywood-for-Dewey Committee had nice legs, a pretty wit and good lungs : Ginger Rogers, Hedda Hopper, Rosalind Russell, Cecil B. de Mille, Anne Baxter, Leo Carrillo and Adolphe Menjou. So did the Hollywood Committee of New Dealers: Rita Hayworth, Olivia de Havilland, Katharine Hepburn, Orson Welles, Harpo Marx, Lana Turner, Walter Huston, Fanny Brice...
...Destination, Tokyo has earned a certain respect, and A Guy Named Joe is well thought of in India. In Iceland, Hollywood's self-congratulatory Four Jills in a Jeep (TIME, April 3) ended abruptly when a crowd of G.l.s walked out on it. In Alaska, where Olivia De Havilland is normally very popular with G.l.s, they fiercely hooted her flag-waving tantrums at the end of Government Girl. Everywhere, G.l.s scan war films for technical errors to razz; and everywhere they reserve their most scathing cracks for pseudo-heroics...
Olivia de Havilland, Tokyo-born brunette (see cut), was rescued from potential "life service" to Warner Bros. by a Superior Court in Los Angeles. In a ruling which the Motion Picture Daily called "precedent-establishing," the judge declared that to add the accumulated lost time of her seven suspensions to the seven calendar years of her contract "would amount to virtual peonage." Warner Bros. declared that it had just begun to fight...