Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...concern in the U. S., what Madison Square Garden Corp. arranged last month was a fight between Jack Doyle and Jacob ("Buddy") Baer Jr. Doyle is a handsome young Irishman who, since arriving in the U. S. last February, has distinguished himself by failing to get a job in Hollywood on the strength of his appearance, by marrying a minor cinemactress named Judith Allen, and by defeating three hopelessly obscure heavyweight fighters. Buddy Baer is the 238-lb., 6-ft., 6-in., 20-year-old brother of one-time Heavyweight Champion Max Baer. He has thrashed some equally feeble opponents...
What made these statements more notable than they sounded last week was the fact that they came from the tall, fuzzy-haired Hungarian who in two years has made Great Britain's cinema industry a serious rival to Hollywood. When he arrived in Manhattan on his way to California to discuss his plans for the coming season, ship news reporters on the lie de France dutifully scribbled every word Alexander Korda said because they knew that, as head of London Film Productions, Ltd. he is today Britain's best in the way of a producer...
Alexander Korda's trip to Hollywood last week was not his first. Son of a well-to-do land agent on the estate of a Hungarian bishop, he became a schoolteacher at 14, a reporter at 18, got into cinema by translating subtitles. Starting with an inferior epic based on the Freudian theory of dreams, he began to produce pictures of his own, became the No. 1 cineman of Hungary after the War. This trifling distinction served as a mild irritant. He went to Vienna, made a hit called The Prince and the Pauper, married an actress named Maria...
...original. The second and third versions of Anna Karenina still have two important things in common. These are a superb portrayal of Anna by Greta Garbo and a story which, like many masterpieces of the world's literature, could scarcely have been better suited to the purposes of Hollywood if it had been written by six famed screen writers...
...When Hollywood revived musical films three years ago, dancing was monopolized by Director Busby Berkely and his imitators. The height of their inventions was reached in Footlight Parade, which showed a chorus massed to represent the U. S. flag. When Dancer Fred Astaire first appeared in Hollywood, he was deemed too lacking in acting ability and sex appeal to do more than a momentary turn in Dancing Lady, for which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer borrowed him from RKO. That bit made Astaire one of the five biggest box-office names in the industry. Teamed with Ginger Rogers?an almost equally capable...