Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood reporters, picture services, both United Press and Associated Press snapped at the story. On front pages all over the U. S., Cinemactress Leeds was billed as "Hollywood's Kiss Champion...
Lionel Stander is a shaggy young Jew of Russo-German descent whose sudden rise to cinematic fame in the past year can be traced, like so many others in Hollywood, principally to a misspent youth. Too independent to follow his father's profession of public accountant, he ran away from school at 14, earned his living for five years as cab driver, lifeguard, reporter, tile setter, office boy, bank clerk. Where an orderly schooling might have refined, this helter-skelter existence served to aggravate the amazing accent of an illiterate Hell's Kitchen ragamuffin which...
...Bunting was free to enjoy the sacraments outside Chichester, that young man professed to believe he was just as much excommunicated as if the Church had consigned him to Satan with a Fiat, fiat, fiat!* From a seaside resort Bunting, who said he had been a scenario writer in Hollywood, announced he was retaining counsel, would try to prove the Bishop wrong. Admitting he had his parents' money, he said: "In the past it may be I was a naughty boy, but there are lots of sons who have been naughty boys...
Divorced. Paul William Gallico, 39, Manhattan sports and fiction writer; by his second wife, Mrs. Elaine St. Johns Gallico, 21, daughter of Hearst Hollywood Columnist Adela Rogers St. Johns: in Chicago. Grounds: cruelty, slapping her face for "a facetious remark...
This was the nub of the Kennedy report. Though the management has been turned upside down, Mr. Kennedy did not proceed with his work, his connection with the company having ended July 1. Old Chairman Adolph Zukor had already been shipped to Hollywood to try to straighten out production. President John Edward Otterson was fired, Barney Balaban, an experienced showman taking his place (TIME, July 13). Other showmen were added to the board to replace businessmen directors. Since Mr. Kennedy first looked at it last May, the Paramount Picture has brightened considerably...