Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Devil Is a Woman (Paramount). Marlene Dietrich is one of the most beautiful and dynamic actresses in Hollywood. Director Josef von Sternberg is an eccentric specialist who enjoys filling his camera lens with shadows, antique furniture, objects d'art and confetti. To most observers, these salient characteristics might suggest that, for the purpose of manufacturing profitable moving pictures, Director von Sternberg and Cinemactress Dietrich constituted less than an ideal partnership. To the executives of Paramount, on the other hand, they justified a series of five pictures (Morocco, Dishonored, Shanghai Express, Blonde Venus, The Scarlet Empress), few of which made...
...life of a Spanish cafe dancer (Dietrich) and the middle-aged army officer (Lionel Atwill) whose career is shattered by his morbid passion for her. Infinitely more adult in its approach to human values than such a picture as The Scoundrel (see above), this effort by one of Hollywood's most famed directors is correspondingly more childish in its manner. After winding through an interminable succession of overdecorated scenes, in which flashbacks show the progress of the love affair while the elderly lover tells the story of it to his latest and most formidable rival (Cesar Romero), it ends...
...over. Crushed to death were Pilot Bolton. Co-Pilot Kenneth Greeson, New Mexico's millionaire-Senator Bronson Cutting, a 20-year-old girl-sister of the TWA radio dispatcher who had been directing the plane. Injured were a mother and baby, the wife of a TWA pilot, five Hollywood cinemen and the wife of one, who died next...
Cinema celebrities in Los Angeles and Hollywood, where Wallace Beery, Bing Crosby, Clark Gable and Al Jolson play the races even more assiduously than most of their profession, are likely to patronize Zeke Caress. He made future books this year on the Agua Caliente Derby and Santa Anita Handicap, readily takes bets...
...Broadway reporters picked up the trail of a Frank Wallace who played the part of a Bowery singing waiter in Mae West's Diamond Lil in 1928, learned he had died two years ago. Actor Wallace's picture zipped over 3,000-mi. of telephone wire to Hollywood. Mae West: "Yes, I remember that face. But I was never married to anybody." ¶Manhattan newshawks rooted up an-other Frank Wallace in a theatrical hotel with his dancing partner, Trixie La Mae. Readily Hoofer Wallace admitted it was he who had married Mae West in Milwaukee. Hearst...