Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. John Fairbanks, 43, brother of Douglas Fairbanks and General Manager of the Douglas Fairbanks Picture Corp.; in Hollywood, Calif., of paralytic stroke...
Engaged. Charles ("Charlie") Paddock, Olympic race champion; to Bebe Daniels, cinema star. Mr. Paddock made the announcement when twitted for telephoning to Miss Daniels at Hollywood, Calif., from Albany...
George Bernard Shaw is forever being tempted by the emissaries of Hollywood. Here comes Mr. Jesse Lasky who offers him $75,000 for the film rights so the only Shaw novel "Cashel Byro Profession." The mere offer would be sufficiently interesting, but the shrewd Mr. Lasky has even more delightful things in store. If he succeeds in obtaining the rights he intends and most appropriately to sign Mr. Glene Tunney to play the pugilist. No one could be better fitted for the role; like Shaw's hero Tunney has gained fame as the student heavy weight. What he does...
Emil Jannings, foremost German cinema actor: "I do not remember New York, as I left Brooklyn, my birthplace, for Germany at the age of one. I have returned to make pictures for a year in Hollywood, following my success with U. S. audiences in Passion, The Last Laugh, Variety. Debarking from the S. S. Albert Ballin in Manhattan, I carried my pet mocking bird in a cage. Warned by newsgatherers not to let Hollywood 'get' me, I replied: 'Ah, I am Jannings! I go to Hollywood. I am still Jannings...
...movie stars of Hollywood have evinced great interest in the prospect of their first run pictures being shown to Harvard men. Cecil B. De Mille has requested by telegram that the criticisms of the University Theatre patrons on his pictures be carefully noted...