Word: hells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Hell." Director Kazan and many another of Barbara's friends in New York urged her to stay away from pictures. "She was not a commodity, a can of peas," says Kazan. "She was an actress." But Actress Bel Geddes had at last been granted a wish completely on her own terms. She was not to be turned off. "I wanted desperately to be a movie star," she admits today. She went to the coast determined, often quite touchily (as in the matter of dressing rooms), to be treated like a movie star. The one thing she could...
...difficulties of shading her "nipple" nose, Barbara went to a plastic surgeon and had it bobbed. "It hurt," she said, "like the devil." The Hollywood payoff came when R.K.O.'s new boss Howard Hughes declared that Barbara had "no sex appeal." "That," said Barbara, "made me mad as hell." After 2½ years and four pictures, she and the studio parted company. "I was fired," is the way Barbara puts...
...snowed under by his untidy white hair; he drapes his bulky frame in handsome Harris tweeds, wears a carelessly slung scarf and paint-splashed shoes. Sympathetic or not, questions about his art generally draw an amiable response. "I can't understand doctors or lawyers," he says. "Why the hell should anyone understand...
...seduced the Erie was an ex-cattle drover named Daniel Drew, a director from 1853 to 1868. "Uncle Dan'l" made millions juggling Erie stock* on Wall Street, but never gave the common stockholders a nickel, giving rise to the saying: "Icicles will sprout in hell before Erie common pays a dividend...
...throttle. Woodruff, who had risen from section hand to president in 36 years with the Erie, bought new diesels for fast freight, streamlined the Erie's creaky business methods, cleared $21.8 million in 1941. The next year, Erie directors cheerfully announced that "icicles have sprouted in hell." They paid a 50? common dividend, their first in 69 years. Dividends have been declared every year since (1950's payment: $1.75 a share...