Word: hollywood
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Bing Crosby is probably the world's best paid male singer ($275,000 a year). For Going Hollywood he got $75,000. He was born in Tacoma, Wash, in 1904. studied law at Gonzaga University, failed to take his bar examination, became a "hot" singer with Paul Whiteman's Rhythm Boys. When William Paley of Columbia Broad casting System heard a Crosby phono graph record, Bing was hired to sing on the radio for Cremo cigars, imitating Rudy Vallee's low register quavers. Now almost as popular as Vallee in the U. S. and Eng land, Crosby...
...wrong convention. Flying Down to Rio (RKO). In the current cycle of musicomedies there are three major types: 1) elaborate revues, with plots based on backstage activities or neo-Freudian dreams, like Roman Scandals; 2) naive comedies based on the real careers of the actors involved, like Going Hollywood (see col. 1); 3) semi-sophisticated romances like Flying Down to Rio. For Flying Down to Rio, Vincent Youmans was hired to write the music for four songs: "Flying Down to Rio." "Music Makes Me," "Orchids in the Moonlight," "Carioca." Fred Astaire was hired to dance as frequently as possible...
Miriam Hopkins made her stage debut in the chorus of the first Music Box Revue (1921). In 1932 she divorced her second husband, Playwright Austin Parker. She has an adopted son. Michael. Her favorite drink is a Tom Collins. Hereafter, she plans to spend her summers picture- making in Hollywood, her winters play-acting in Manhattan...
Born. To Walter ("Walt") Disney, 32, cinemanimator (Mickey Mouse, Three Little Pigs), and Lillian Bounds Disney: a daughter; in Hollywood, while Animator Disney was being awarded a medal for distinguished service to childhood by President Rufus von Kleinsmid of the University of Southern California. Weight: 8 Ib. 2 oz. Name: Dianne Marie...
...SWEDEN-Margaret Goldsmith-Doubleday, Derail ($2.50). When Greta Garbo's latest picture was released this week, cinemaddicts learned an historical fact: there was once a ruler of Sweden named Christina. But Authoress Goldsmith's biography gives a clearer picture of what manner of woman she was than Hollywood would ever dare. Not a first-rate book, Christina of Sweden at least gives U. S. readers a glimpse of one of the lesser-known figures of history. Only child of the great Gustavus Adolphus, Christina (1626-89) should have been a man, for she always acted like one. Short...