Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Radio Theatre, CBS. Substitutes, starting July 17: Hollywood Gabster George McCall; Guy Lombardo's orchestra...
When anyone makes a hit in Hollywood, first recognition is to get his signature on a long-term contract. Last week such recognition came to one of Hollywood's biggest and newest names, 31-year-old James Roosevelt. After six months as vice president of Samuel Goldwyn, Inc., Jimmy got from his bald, bombastic and highly pleased boss a new, two-year contract, enlarging his studio duties, providing a salary increase next year from...
Oddest quirk in the saga of Jimmy-in-Hollywood is that under another name Mr. Roosevelt might well make more money. When Cinemagnate Goldwyn hired him last year, just as Trust Buster Thurman Arnold had poised his ax over the cinema industry, Hollywood feared that if he were paid too much he would be resented as a last-minute Pocahontas. Jimmy Roosevelt has stayed as far away from the antitrust prosecutions as possible, although he was named as a defendant in the Goldwyn suit. He has served as Goldwyn representative on the board of United Artists and as Mr. Goldwyn...
...Motion Picture Relief Fund. He has taken Merle Oberon out to dinner. Although he has transferred his 40-foot motor cruiser, New Moon, to a Pacific anchorage, he has left his wife in the East, keeps his voting residence in Framingham, Mass. Jimmy how first-names most of Hollywood but respectfully speaks of his employer as Mr. Goldwyn. To an interviewer Cineman Roosevelt recently observed: "I won't say I'm not going to go back into politics, because if I do say so, and then later decide I will go back, people will...
...barnstorming aviator and Hollywood cameraman, Miller tells as many tall ones as Trader Horn, makes some of them sound convincing. The first white child raised in Netherlands New Guinea, he began his jungle jaunts at five, and while still an adolescent became a blood brother of the Marind-Anim tribe. He returned to his native islands to make a travel film, having married the expedition's backer in Java and taken her along for the honeymoon. He says that some day he is going to bring back the dinosaur he saw and confound his skeptics. Meantime, he has brought...