Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...manic period of which wisecracks are the symptoms, started with The Thin Man. The Case of the Curious Bride is a less adroit, less original picture but the speed of Michael Curtiz' direction manages to create somewhat the same mixture of tension and amusement. Warren William, fast becoming Hollywood's No.1 exponent of deductive reasoning, is aided enormously by Claire Dodd in her first cinema performance as a nice girl...
...director of the Group. Luther & Stella Adler, J. Edward Bromberg and Alexander Kirkland had theatrical names before they joined the Group, are its top-flight actors. Kirkland's substitution for Franchot Tone is the only important change in the Group's lineup since it started. From opulent Hollywood, Actor Tone recently sent back $5,000 to help his onetime colleagues put on Awake and Sing...
...their seven-room flat. A Jew like half of the Group's personnel, he likes music, plays the harmonica, is unmarried. With the proceeds of his recent successes he bought an electric phonograph. Since any man who has two hits on Broadway can command his own price in Hollywood, Broadway observers wondered how long Playwright Odets would be satisfied with his electric phonograph...
Married. Tom Campbell Black, co-winner of the MacRobertson Trophy, England-to-Australia air race last autumn (TIME, Oct. 29); and Florence Desmond. British actress, mimic ("The Hollywood Party"); in London...
...Hollywood writer, befriended by a temperamental director and his lovely actress-wife, becomes a half-willing participant in their queer make-believe that ends in tragedy...