Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the arrival of talkies, most of Hollywood's new female celebrities have been imported either from the Manhattan stage or from European cinema. Not so Karen Morley. Christened Mabel Linton in Ottumwa, Iowa, she went to Los Angeles when she was 13, attended Holly wood High School. After her sophomore year at the University of California at Los Angeles she joined the Pasadena Com munity Playhouse. When Director Clarence Brown was casting male actors for Inspiration, he asked Karen Morley, hired as an extra, to read Greta Garbo's lines. She did it well enough to get a screen...
...almost none which cost more than $300,000; none, like Trader Horn, which cost $1,000,000 or more. All producers cut office salaries; most producers tried to cut the salaries of employes under contract. George Arliss and Richard Barthelmess reduced their own salaries. James Cagney last week quit Hollywood because his pay was not increased (see p. 26). Also last week Ina Claire retired from the cinema to return to the stage. Her reason: "I didn't have my say. I took the movies too seriously...
...piano recital: "That guy has a great left 'hand." After bickering for two months (TIME, May 9) about his $1.600 weekly salary which he considered outrageously low, Cinemactor Cagney was last fortnight said to have reached an agreement with his employers, but last week he denied this. He left Hollywood to motor to Manhattan, stated that his cinema career (The Public Enemy, Smart Money, Taxi, Blonde Crazy, Winner Take All) was definitely finished...
What Price Hollywood (RKO). Hollywood stories, about the vagaries of cinema producers, the diversions of their employes, reached the dignity of the stage two years ago in Once in a Lifetime. Last year Howard Hughes wanted to make a savage picture about Hollywood called Queer People. He was dissuaded. What-Price Hollywood is the first cinema upon the subject...
...film really tried to answer the question in its title the result would be a tragedy (see p. 24), but it does not do so. It starts when a drunken director named Maximilian Carey (Lowell Sherman) walks into a Hollywood restaurant and orders six glasses of water. He is served by Mary Evans (Constance Ben-nett), a waitress who wants to be a star in cinema. She brings Carey his water so efficiently that he takes her to the opening of his picture and subsequently enables her to get a contract as an actress...