Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood the personal effects of the late Cinemactor John Gilbert were auctioned. Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich bought his 32 cotton sheets and 35 pillow cases for $300. Leatrice Joy Gilbert, 13, his daughter by his second wife, bought an etching and a makeup box. Virginia Bruce, his fourth wife, bought a Bible...
...Texas Rangers (Paramount) represents Hollywood's most determined effort to date to capitalize that glorious period of a State in the making, of which the amusement possibilities have already been so strikingly demonstrated by Showman Billy Rose and his Fort Worth Nude Ranch...
...Minors. Hollywood's child actors have also benefited from the radio boom. Though cautious handlers kept Clark Gable's female box-office counterpart, little Shirley Temple, off the air, 13-year-old Jackie Cooper (Skippy) last week landed a $10,000 contract, had to have it approved by a court. For Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Coal Co. young Actor Cooper will next month make a series of recorded programs with such of his older Hollywood colleagues as Fred & Paula Stone, Polly Moran, Patsy Kelly, Dolores Costello Barrymore, Hoot Gibson, Jack Holt, Elissa Landi. For working in Jackie...
Gossip. Even a Hollywood Gossip, Hearst's Louella 0. Parsons, landed herself in the big radio money two years ago as guiding spirit of Campbell Soup's "Hol-lywood Hotel." Beside this weekly program, the soup-makers present an annual Yuletide broadcast in which Actor Lionel Barrymore (fora reputed $1,250) wheezes, growls, grunts and snuffles his way through the part of Scrooge in a dramatization of Dickens' Christmas Carol. Last week's "Hollywood Hotel" offered an adaption of Dadsworth with Walter Huston and Ruth Chatterton. Next week: Norma Shearer as Juliet, to a radio Romeo...
...other reason, "Hollywood Hotel" is notable because it is credited with having wangled $500,000 worth of free cinema talent since its inception, through the persistence of Gossip Parsons. Paying no money to weekly guest stars, Miss Parsons is supposed to bring ungenerous cinemactors into line through their fear of unfavorable publicity in the Hearstpapers. One of Hollywood's most derided and dreaded characters, chunky, many-chinned "Lolly" Parsons gives in her column an astounding daily show of uncritical gush. Great & good friend of William Randolph Hearst, Miss Parsons also professed great affection for Hollywood's grande dame...