Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Matter. Reina was a Hollywood cocotte, "a parasite by nature." She got a good man, but couldn't keep him. Olive, a Baptist from Salt Lake City, had an itch for men of culture. She died in Manhattan, after marrying one of many. Ellen wanted to be an artist. She found her opposite number in Paris, but he left her; then, she tried to make second bests do. Lucia was born on the Riviera, but she went to Paris to learn about love. When she was tired of being an old man's darling, she tried a young...
...Hollywood are the new $75,000,000 studios of Fox Film Corp, Throughout the U. S. are some 1,200 theatres controlled by Fox Theatres Corp. In almost every country are Fox distributing agencies. In sole command of the Fox organization was, until last week, William Fox who from an investment of $1,667 built the entire structure, amassed a personal fortune once estimated at over...
...girl brought up in a South American jungle becoming a social success in a modern U. S. city. These possibilities were neglected; Untamed becomes a routine, highly improbable love story built around the man Miss Crawford meets on the boat coming north. Except for a song in The Hollywood Revue, it is the first time her voice has been photographed. She sings with a deep, throaty twang; even her mutterings as Bingo, the jungle girl, do not spoil the effect of her natural vivacity and physical outlines. Silliest shot: fistfight between Bingo's sweetheart and another suitor...
Seventy-seven stars (count 'em) and "1000 Hollywood" beauties (try and count 'em) are appearing several times daily at the Olympic and Uptown Theatres. Although the whole revue is photographed in technicolor, there is little to distinguish it from its predecessors in the field. There is too much material to be handled in the large cast...
...Hollywood celebrities are paraded across the stage in rapid succession. They are all there, but they don't prove very much. Some day we hope to see the real movie review, and it will be a modest, intimate affair, directed with some restraint and discretion...