Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strike?in which Sinclair took no sides? brought a conservative reaction, how great no man knew. Last week, the jittery conservatives hoped that Upton Sinclair might not win the nomination, but from the standpoint of showmanship it did not matter. He had conducted a superlative campaign, original, dramatic, gripping. Hollywood's best director could not have done better...
Vaulting from the platform of a private railroad car, a stouter but no less jaunty Douglas Fairbanks returned to Hollywood for the first time since the news of divorce proceedings put his name back into the headlines. But to inquisitive newshawks he would say nothing about the suit filed against him in California by his wife Mary Pickford, nor the suit filed in Britain by Lord Ashley against Lady Sylvia Ashley in which he appears as corespondent. Was he going abroad again? ''I do not expect to go back to England...
When he arrived in Manhattan from Great Britain to defend the title which he won at Forest Hills last year, dapper Fred Perry told newshawks his purposes and plans: "I intend to fool around in Hollywood for a while. I don't know whether I'm going to be an actor or not. Universal approached me with an offer to make a picture but I don't think I could do it and remain an amateur...
...unless I have a feeling about it." His slowness in communicating his feelings during story conferences irritates writers and producers. He cannot write dialog or construct a story himself but has a talent for squeezing the last drop of emotion out of any well-written scene. He came to Hollywood with his wife Florence 18 years ago in a rattletrap Ford, stealing gas and tires on the way, bringing with him a camera record of the trip. Since then he has made such silent pictures as The Big Parade (1925), The Crowd (1927), talkies like Cynara (1932), Hallelujah...
...Above directors in Hollywood's economic, if not in its esthetic, scale are producers who hire directors, assign them to pictures, tell them how much to spend and are, to some extent, respon- sible for their work. Three of the most widely publicized producers in Hollywood: MGM's Irving Thalberg, Twentieth Century's Darryl Zanuck, Universal's Carl Laemmle...