Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbia Pictures, pennywise Hollywood, licking the wounds of its 16-month battle with the Dramatists' Guild, started its penitent return to Broadway playbacking last week. This move marked the end of a period that had forced up screen prices for stage hits to astronomical levels ($200,000 for You Can't Take It With You, $255,000 for Room Service...
...League of New York Theatres representing top producers (a notable exception, Gilbert Miller), agreed to give the playwright full control of play disposition after its legitimate production, also to give him 60% minimum instead of the previous 50% of film-rights share, cutting the play manager's accordingly. Hollywood, accustomed to making the manager a dummy figure and further controlling play property destinies by entering into noncompetitive bidding accords with other studios, promptly stopped backing plays. Simultaneously seven studios (Warner Bros., Universal, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Twentieth Century-Fox, Paramount, RKO-Radio, Columbia) set up the Bureau of New Plays...
...Notable example: Gloria Dickson, lifted to Hollywood fame in They Won't Forget (TIME, July...
Sued Mrs. Delphine Dodge Cromwell Baker Godde, divorcee Dodge auto heiress; by Cinemactress Judith Allen; for $2,000,000 for alienation of the affections of Irish Pugilist Jack Doyle; in Hollywood...
...Hollywood, ex-Convict Jeareld McDonald was hired as technical adviser for gangster films, decided he wanted to act, secured a "bit." A friend saw the picture, told Mrs. Estelle O'Neal whom he had married in 1927. Mrs. O'Neal had Jeareld McDonald arrested for bigamy because later he had married Mrs. Katherine Mandel without bothering about a divorce. Jeareld McDonald went back to jail for ten years...