Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood Director Howard Hawks last week conducted screen tests to find an actor to play opposite Cinemactress Andrea Leeds in Producer Sam Goldwyn's forthcoming picture Come and Get It. For a typical sequence he chose one in which the actor kissed Cinemactress Leeds eight times. In order to give each of three prospects-John Payne, Bob Lowrey and Tennist Frank Shields-a fair chance, he had each do the sequence 20 or more times. The tests took more than three hours each. At the end of the day a script clerk announced that Cinemactress Leeds had been kissed...
...president, speedily quarreled with Producer Sam Goldwyn over the marketing of Barbary Coast, resigned. Prima Donna Mary Pickford took over as provisional president. Last week United Artists owners-Miss Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Goldwyn, Charles Chaplin and British Producer Alexander Korda's delegate, Murray Silverstone-sat down in Hollywood to pick a boss. Favored candidates were Pickford and Silverstone. Instead the owners elected Dr. Attilio Henry Giannini...
...lives on Chicago's North Shore, is active in Jewish affairs, takes a great interest in the Chicago Riding Club and the Arlington (Ill.) race track, both of which he helped found. Taking a sly poke at Wall Street's various unsuccessful attempts to run a Hollywood enterprise, Barney Balaban declared last week: "It is a source of confidence to find the board of directors giving due recognition to the necessity of having experienced men in the industry and in important positions in the management...
...buddy's sister. Without waiting for consequences, he makes tracks for his native town, where he is soon in trouble with the police for editing a smut magazine. Further adventures include bumming, bootlegging, another enlistment in the Army, a book of poems which lands him a job in Hollywood, ups & downs in Wall Street, many an amorous passage by the way. Eventually he settles down to run a bookshop, like his Dad, and marries the patient girl who has been waiting for him. Author Paul makes boisterous fun of every U. S. institution and human type his hero encounters...
...looks not unlike Richard Halliburton, and both have the endearing faculty of telling tall tales. Last week Author Thome's third book made the resemblance seem even stronger. Though he has not yet taken the royal road to the ladies-lecture platform, Anthony Thorne is obviously hoping for Hollywood. Down Come the Trees is too improbable a yarn to impress even a hot-weather reader, but its cinematic possibilities are patent. The crudely-drawn celluloid silhouettes in his latest story can be seen through at a glance, but enlarged by Hollywood sound and fury they might well be heard...