Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Settled by compromise in Hollywood was the court battle between the aunt and parents of Cinemactor Freddie Bartholomew over the guardianship of the 12-year-old star (TIME, April 20). Mr. & Mrs. Cecil Llewelyn Bartholomew agreed to split Freddie's $1,250 weekly income with Miss Myllicent ("Aunt Cissie") Bartholomew, leave her exclusive control of his cinema career...
...Hollywood, Calif...
Sale was largely inspired by the success of Naughty Marietta (TIME, April 1, 1935) which served as the first important cinema vehicle for Baritone Nelson Eddy, whose concert audiences have been clamoring ever since for Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. Hollywood had barely tapped the Herbert catalog before. It used The Fortune Teller as a Spanish short to display the negligible talents of Enrico Caruso Jr. The Red Mitt plot served Marion Davies once in the days of silent pictures. A distorted version of Mademoiselle Modiste called Kiss Me Again passed by practically unnoticed when it was produced...
Near Deadwood, S. Dak. the Black Hills Exploration Co. prepared to prospect for gold with the world's largest diamond drill. The company's president: Sid Grauman, owner of Hollywood's famed Chinese Theatre. Vice president: Cinemactor Al Jolson...
Than normal, two-fisted, out-of-doors- loving Clark Gable, no man might sympathize more with Lawyer Drinker. Breaking out of a clinch before the cameras with Jeannette MacDonald last week in Hollywood, able Clark Gable declared: "Picturegoers don't want performances in which the actor mugs all over the screen. ... I mean, lingering embraces and prolonged osculation are no longer necessary...