Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Alison Mary Elliott Margaret Markham-Skipworth, 57, is Hollywood's most reliable grande dame or "high class wicked woman." At 20 she was the wife of artist Frank Markham-Skipworth and starving in London. "To keep from starving" she took a part as understudy to Marie Tempest in The Artist's Model, nine months later was playing the lead in Manhattan. She once paid Douglas Fairbanks Sr. $40 a week as a juvenile. She has owned a chicken farm on Long Island for 28 years, will some day retire...
...leadership of a drunken riverboat captain (Richard Dix). They stand off Voronsky with a machinegun, between intervals of comic relief by Zasu Pitts as a handkerchief-wringing tourist and Edward Everett Horton as a timid lover. Gwili André, a beauteous mannequin who deserted the fashion magazines for Hollywood, is the mysterious refugee suspected of being Voronsky's chattel. She falls in love with Richard Dix who spurns her, until in the last reel they all escape with surprising ease to the river. No credible picture of modern China, Roar of the Dragon is fair melodrama. White...
...Hollywood Speaks (Columbia), another exercise in self scrutiny by the film industry, begins like What Price Hollywood with an opening at Grauman's Chinese Theatre and ends with suicide and scandal. Pat O'Brien is a critic who needs an aspirin and clutches at the bottle in the hand of an extra girl (Genevieve Tobin). The bottle holds poison. He builds a new life for her, makes her a star while she blandishes a famed director. The director's wife commits suicide, blaming Genevieve Tobin in a note which a blackmailer finds. In retrieving the note...
...mouths a good deal when they talk, but they look not much alike. Brent, 28, an Irish newsman's son, was born and educated in Dublin. He joined the famed Abbey Theatre Company in Dublin, later went to Denver with a stock company, then to Manhattan, then to Hollywood. His favorite role was his part opposite Ruth Chatterton in The Rich Are Always With Us. His engagement to marry Ruth Chatterton, not yet divorced from Ralph Forbes, was announced last fortnight (TIME, July 18). His favorite actress is Greta Garbo...
...leader of the group, toured the U. S. some ten years ago with Lisa and Margot. Because of stories about Isadora's Communistic leanings they found themselves in frequent trouble. Currently Anna is having her voice trained; from her ranch near Santa Fe she looks with hopeful eyes at Hollywood...