Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Money he need not worry about for years. His Hollywood work brought him $90,000; his royalties plus a 25% interest-shared with his wife-in Golden Boy brought him about $2,000 a week during its seven-month run; the cinema sale means $42,000 more. (He and his wife have a 35% joint interest in Rocket to the Moon.) He looks ahead to writing plays without interruption-has "ten or twelve"' plays already laid out. One, a strike play called The Silent Partner, may be produced by the Group later this season...
Odets defines the general fraud. It is the American dream, the Cinderella formula, the success story (presumably including his own). It is life as expressed in popular songs; it is Boy Meets Girl; it is Every Boy Can End Up in the White House. Hollywood is its chief dispenser. American men are its chief victims. As soon, says Odets, as an American man finds his dream girl has a blemish that wasn't in the song about her, he is through with...
...dictator, voiced his fears that the decision of U. S. distributors to withhold their pictures from Italy would keep Italians from the movies. Then he added for his father's sake: "Personally and politically I am content that American films produced in that Hebrew Communist centre which is Hollywood, are not to enter Italy...
Born. To Cinemactor Boris Karloff (in Frankenstein, the Monster; in real life, Charles Edward Pratt), 51, and his wife: a daughter, their first child; in Hollywood...
Sued for Divorce. Bette Davis (real name: Ruth Elizabeth Davis), 30, famed cinemactress: by her onetime-bandmaster and adman husband, Harmon Oscar ("Ham") Nelson Jr.; in Hollywood. His complaint: his wife was so engrossed in her profession that she "neglected and failed to perform her duties as a wife," flew into rages when asked to exhibit evidence of conjugal affection...