Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pleasure to find the Cohens and Kellys back in Hollywood. May they stay there henceforth and allow the picture now playing at R.K.O. Keith's to be their farewell appearance. These good people flourished in the days of "Abie's Irish Rose" but they are past their prime...
...Kellys through the efforts of the daughter Kitty through the efforts of the daughter Kitty (June Clyde) as an actress and then of the Cohens when the son Melville becomes a theme song writer. The Kellys, as nouveaux riches, fancy themselves disgraced by the Cohens, who follow them to Hollywood. Miss Edna May Oliver could do this to perfection but the Kellys merely blunder through in their usual way, while Kitty, in the pursuit of her art, makes burlesque melodramas for which there is no apparent reason except to prove that almost any moving picture could be worse than...
...letters, priced and sold them for a quid (pound), but his mother's autographs he kept. Smart again, the Prince while serving under a British naval captain chosen by Queen Mary, gave his superior officers the slip in California, dashed off for a night of frolic in Hollywood, later escaped from the Royal Navy altogether by contracting "chronic seasickness." Next put to work at the Foreign Office and diligently tutored by its bureaucrats, H. R. H. developed symptoms so alarming that his withdrawal from the Foreign Office became imperative." It must always be borne in mind," his comptroller, Major...
...Such a person is Miss Catherine Dale Owen, the raspy-voiced, jonquil-haired socialite charmer in Happy Landing. Usually associated with film work, Miss Owen made her first success in the entertainment business with her appearance on Broadway in The Whole Town's Talking. Afterward she went to Hollywood, played opposite John Gilbert in His Glorious Night, with Lawrence Tibbett in The Rogue Song, with Levis Stone in Strictly Unconventional. She announces as the reason for turning her back on the Golden Calf of Hollywood a need to "help her technique." Miss Owen is not alone among oldtime film...
Naturalized. 'Michael Sinnot (Mack Sennett), 42, film producer, bathing girl fancier; in Hollywood. Born in Canada, a blacksmith's son with operatic aspirations, he emigrated to the U. S., became a boilermaker and choir-singer. After going to Hollywood in 1911, he developed such stars as Gloria Swanson, Charles Chaplin, Wallace Beery, Ben Turpin, originated the cinema custard...