Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood children prepare to realize their parents' vicarious screen ambitions, but she did not stay there long. Dimpled, pretty, with yellow hair curled by her mother's fingers, she was picked by a scout for Educational Pictures. Her professional career started with a role in Baby Burlesks. Encouraged, Mrs. Temple worked hard submitting Shirley to all studios reported needing children. In 1934 she was cast to sing "Baby Take a Bow" in Fox's Stand Up and Cheer (TIME, April 30, 1934). The picture was feeble but Shirley was a hit. Hollywood distrusts infant performers. They...
...exhibitors. As rival to President Roosevelt and King Edward VIII for most photographed celebrity, she appears in an average of 20 still portraits daily for magazines, newspapers and advertisements. In addition to being, accurately speaking, the most popular cinemactress, Shirley Temple is the ablest song-plugger in Hollywood. Sheet music sales on her songs, like Polly Wolly Doodle and On the Good Ship Lollipop, are over 400,000 copies each. These are larger than the sales of songs introduced in the same period by Bing Crosby, Jeanette MacDonald...
...tells its elemental tale with scenic beauty and dramatic vigor. For treatment of such a theme it is artistically essential to develop an intimacy with the heroine's character, and in so doing the film has apparently insulted "good taste." Instead of the mechanical, stop-watch kisses of Hollywood pictures it allows its actors to demonstrate the full power of their emotional torrents not by suggestive allusion, but through the skillful clarity of their dramatic expression...
...actors, gets an estimated $1,250 a week from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer because he impersonates immature characters like the heroes of David Copperfield, Little Lord Fauntleroy and Professional Soldier with incongruously mature dignity. Last week, Cinemactor Bartholomew was the central figure in as incongruously childish a legal mess as Hollywood, which specializes in such affairs, has produced in a long time...
...Boyer at her Paris night club, did his "ringer dancing" in the U. S. early this year as part of Mile Boyer's second Continental Varieties. Last week's Detroit appearance was his U. S. solo debut. His tour of cinemansions will take him to Chicago and Hollywood...