Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stars in Your Eyes. Ethel Merman (* * * * ) and Jimmy Durante (* * * ) in a musicomedy about Hollywood (* *) (TIME...
Most good playwrights get a break, but screenwriters are under a big bushel. Most screenwriters with big names made them elsewhere, like Ben Hecht, Robert Sherwood, Dorothy Parker. Some, like Grover Jones and Frances Marion, have big names in Hollywood that mean little to outsiders. Others, like Wesley Ruggles' Claude Binyon or Frank Capra's Robert Riskin, won fame as co-members of celebrated director-writer teams. Still others, like Darryl Zanuck and Alfred Hitchcock, got their glory in bigger jobs. As compensation for their comparative obscurity, screen authors work more steadily than playwrights and generally make more...
Gene Towne, 35, is a baldheaded veteran of 15 years in Hollywood, where he got his start thinking up wisecracks for titles in silent pictures. Since he shifted to writing original screenplays, which his friends told him was a "starvation business," he has starved less than any writer in Hollywood. Seven years ago he teamed up with Graham Baker, a long-faced ex-producer who once fired him. The two rented a dingy $15-a-month office formerly tenanted by a masseur, bought a Rolls-Royce from a well-known producer down on his luck, painted TOWNE-BAKER SCRIPT DELIVERY...
Publisher George Palmer Putnam, who loves publicity, last week got plenty. He has lately published a fantastic thriller (The Man Who Killed Hitler) which, he reported, brought him numerous anonymous threats. Last week somebody went too far. Found trussed and gagged 100 miles from his North Hollywood home, Mr. Putnam mystified police with a tale of kidnapping by Nazis: "The two men conversed with each other in German. . . . One of them asked who furnished the information for the book. . . . I told them I didn't know...
Engaged. Leo B. Gorcey, 20, granite-faced "Dead End Kid" (Spit); and Katherine Mavis, 17, drama student; in Hollywood...