Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Your excellent cinema columnist trod on a sensitive spot and misled the public in the article on Fred Astaire (TIME, Sept. 9). Mr. Astaire was established on the screen in Flying Down to Rio, for which picture I brought him to Hollywood and teamed him with Ginger Rogers...
...grabbed him as a "sleeper" the minute I saw his first test from New York and practically used the megaphone to tell everyone in Hollywood that here was the next big male draw in pictures...
...anyone else in the U. S. theatre, there is no profitable employment whatever. Most of the skit work is taken over by a British newcomer named Reginald Gardiner who imitates trains, dirigibles, steamships. Other features of an evening of fair fun: the dancing feet of Eleanor Powell, back from Hollywood where they clipped off her bangs, frizzed her hair, enameled her face and made her look like all the other Hollywood girls; the singing laugh of Ethel Waters in a series of tunes strongly reminiscent of her As Thousands Cheer melodies; the slightly unsteady gyrations of Dancer Paul Haakon. Among...
...world's No. 3 hoofer (No. 1, Bill Robin son; No. 2, Fred Astaire). But his reputation never satisfied him until he played Jeeter Lester in Tobacco Road (TIME, July 2, 1934). Barton tried out for the part, was picked to succeed Henry Hull, who was going to Hollywood, where Barton later followed him. Barton arrived by train, sending his Lincoln across the U. S. with his bicycle and six of his 40 dogs...
...never given anything but ingenue parts", she continued, "and there is no future in them. Therefore, I left Hollywood and took the road in an effort to become sophisticated...