Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...scrambled into a limousine. Cameramen yanked open the door. Fugitive Pressman smashed the nearest camera, closed the door, drew the curtains. Mused Claudette Colbert: "It's all so silly. . . . We're not married yet. We're just engaged." In Hollywood, Cinemactor Clark Gable for the sixth time in six weeks denied reports that he is dead. To Manhattan's Bellevue Hospital for observation was sent one Anna Mesina, 34, because she has for three years pestered Crooner Rudy Vallee by visiting his office, announcing that he is her husband, father of her six children. Sold...
...Paramount and Fenway this week offer a balanced diet of harrowing melodrama and rich, lush humor, both clearly above the Hollywood average. And that is praise of a sort, for we do not consider the Hollywood average a butt for sneers of contempt...
...takes more than this to stop Hollywood the Magnificent. The race horse wins a race and $25,000 too, and Roger is thus able to spend his very last thousand dollar bill, thereby earring a $10,000 fee. Hilarious. Bring the children. And by all means come yourself, because this picture is really splendidly inane...
Moving picture producers are often unfortunate in the choice of titles. The Hollywood that changed "The Admirable Crichton" to "Male and Female" has done even worse by Claudette Colbert in her latest vehicle. But don't let the tittle scare you away from "She Married Her Boss." In it Miss Colbert demonstrates once again that she is the first comedy actress of the screen, and she gets able support from Melvyn Douglas and the rest of the cast...
When, three months ago, dynamic little Darryl Francis Zanuck and his partner, Joseph M. Schenck, merged their flourishing Twentieth Century Pictures with huge, debt-laden Fox Film, Hollywood had its doubts as to what the result would be. Would Zanuck, struggling to prop up the sagging bulk, suffocate beneath it? Or would he bring it back to life? Last week, with one picture (Metropolitan) released (TIME, Oct. 28), Producer Zanuck showed three more products of his peculiar art. Hollywood scanned them for answers to its questions. The pictures...