Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, the wife of oldtime Film Actor Bryant Washburn, exasperated because he had brought a friend, one J. Demiteis, home with him early in the morning, picked up a French telephone, banged it down on the pate of J. Demiteis. Summoned by frightened neighbors, police found her screaming: "I've just killed a man!", found J. Demiteis alive but dizzy...
Claire Windsor, film actress, defending a $100,000 alienation of affections suit in Hollywood, admitted she had written the following in her first love-letter to Broker Alfred C. Read Jr.: "Darling, you have been gone only three hours. It seems strange to come up to my room and not call you to let you know I am here, and in a few minutes I will be eating alone...
...Actress Tallulah Bankhead, of acute abdominal trouble, in Manhattan; Valerie Marguerite Germonpres von Stroheim, third wife of Film Director Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Nordenwall von Stroheim, of burns about the head and shoulders and seared lungs when a hair-drying machine in a beauty shop ignited, in Hollywood...
Broadway to Hollywood (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Five years ago, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer made an expensive musicomedy called The March of Time, decided it was not worth releasing but a shade too good to shelve.* After endless ineffective tinkering, Willard Mack and Edgar Allan Woolf rewrote the story. MGM selected a new cast. Broadway to Hollywood is the result. The few remaining shots from the old film-a technicolor ballet executing a blurred march down an exaggerated stairway-might better have been left out. Based upon the tedious conviction that there is nothing quite eo glamorous as a vaudeville actor...
...cane. The Hacketts make the mistake of never changing their routine. Young Ted marries a danseuse (Madge Evans), takes to tippling and "chasing." She dies in an accident. He dies in the War. The old Hacketts add their grandchild to the act, watch him grow up into a Hollywood juvenile. When he misbehaves instead of going to the studio, old Ted Hackett pulls himself out of a lady's bed, packs him off to the lot, dies com- fortably while watching him do an honest buck & wing in the family tradition...