Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...members of the family go about their varied affairs unheeding his distress. Fay Bainter, as the mother, is particularly good. Her acting leaves little to be desired, save perhaps by those who would rather watch homely emotions play over a more beautiful countenance. Her particular preoccupation is going to Hollywood to direct the picture which a book she had written, had inspired...
...reporter could hardly voice his approval of the proposal before Mr. Durante expressed the latest decree of Hollywood, with a faint smile. "A new trend in screen lovers is upon us, yeah a new trend. No more of these slick-haired, smooth guys. Inner beauty! And that's where I come in that internal pulchritude is what get's 'em. With my looks and Greta's personality, would we be glorified!" exclaimed Jimmy with that look of inquiring exultation so familiar to his fans...
Written and directed by Edmund Goulding, Riptide is not a good advertisement for the Thalberg plan. It is an anecdote with elephantiasis, glossy but erroneous, in which the story is less help than hindrance to the three best drawing-room actors in Hollywood. Typical line, Montgomery to Shearer, when he meets her at Cannes: "Whither thou goest, beautiful lady, so will I follow...
...small Lucille Langhanke had ceased to exist. She had become Cinemactress Mary Astor. By 1925 she was leading lady for Douglas Fairbanks. Squat Otto Langhanke had long since retired from school-teaching and chicken-raising. He was a well-to-do Hollywood gentleman, accustomed to dressing in a cutaway. With his wife he lived in a $200,000 house equipped with a $15,000 swimming pool. Last week occurred a crucial development in the history of the Langhanke family. In Los Angeles, Otto Langhanke had given up his cutaway and was wearing what passed for rags when he asked...
Died. Lilyan Tashman (Mrs. Edmund Lowe), 34, cinemactress, "best dressed woman in Hollywood,"; after an operation for tumors; in Manhattan...