Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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RAISED in Hollywood discovered in Hollywood. This short short story of Joel McCrae's career sets him apart from most native born motion picture stars who nowadays go to New York to be discovered. Strongly influenced by William S. Hart be hoped one day to have a cattle ranch. Now he has a ranch of 1,000 acres and besides is a movie star a Bill Hart was once...
Some shorts in Hollywood convinced producers they should take a chance on this boy with a way of singing In the Blue of the Night to send raptures world wide, and the rest is a story of lush success, much banking of Bing, horses, golf and three sons already well publicized...
Upon special request the following excerpts from a review of "Crime and Punishment" by Welford Beaton, editor of the Hollywood Spectator, are being printed. The picture opens its engagement at the University Theatre on Sunday...
Died. John ("Handsome Jack") Gilbert, ne Pringle, 38, onetime "great lover" of silent cinema: of a heart attack; in Hollywood. He went to Hollywood in 1915, rose through the ranks of film extras, finally starred in The Big Parade, won a $500,000 contract with MGM. Though he preferred characters that "live, breathe and sweat," fandom worshipped him as Garbo's ardent lover in Flesh and the Devil, Love. A squeaky voice doomed his talkie career, and he faded from public view. At the modest Hollywood funeral were two of his four divorced wives...
Thanks to Authors Nordhoff & Hall's Mutiny on the Bounty and Hollywood's cinema-diversions on the same subject (TIME, Oct. 17, 1932; Nov. 18), that isolated outbreak on one small ship of George Ill's navy looms larger than it should, has been given undeserved credit for causing widespread naval reforms. What really focused British attention on the seamen's plight was a much bigger affair that broke out in home waters eight years after the Bounty mutiny. In The Floating Republic Authors Manwaring & Dobree give a straightforward, factual account of the events which crippled...