Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, Calif...
...industry whose wage earners range from Greta Garbo to $4-a-day porters, labor troubles are inevitable, complex and continual. Current Hollywood labor troubles have centred around three groups: actors, technicians, writers. Last week, all three groups contrived to make more progress in one direction or another than they have since the cinema's latest rash of controversies began a month ago (TIME...
Gulping deep the Tuesday morning air to cure their Memorial Day hangovers, Hollywood actors and actresses last week reported for work under a new wage scale won for them by the Screen Actors Guild. From now on, minimum day's pay for extras will be $5.50 instead of $3.20. Cinema cowboys will henceforth get $11 instead of $5 a day. With wages for other low-bracket actors up proportionately, the Guild's new scale affects all companies, makes most difference to bargain-hunting independents, who make 240 of Hollywood's 700 feature pictures a year. Costs will...
...were placed under jurisdiction of the I. A. T. S. E. and would get a 10% raise if the I. A. T. S. E. raise granted last April could be expanded to include its new affiliate. At 2 o'clock the following morning, after Conciliator Fitzgerald had left Hollywood for San Francisco under the impression that his job was done, striking painters repudiated the settlement, voted 640 to 276 to hold out for F. M. P. C. jurisdiction over hairdressers and make-up men. Next day, the hairdressers and make-up men voted to reject the terms agreed...
Died. Jean Harlow, 26, platinum-blonde cinemactress; of cerebral edema (swelling of the brain), following acute uremia; in Hollywood's Good Samaritan Hospital. Christened Harlean Carpentier, reared in Kansas City, Jean Harlow became with Hell's Angels (1930), a top-rank star and the cinema's No. 1 symbol of sex appeal. She held her rank with Red Dust, Dinner at Eight, Blonde Bombshell, China Seas, Wife Versus Secretary, Libeled Lady, all made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Her first husband, with whom she eloped at 16, was Chicago Broker Charles McGrew, whom she divorced before she went...