Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Miss Schell, as the unfortunate Gervaise, gives a virtuoso performance, pulling out every emotional stop, but with a restraint that makes her suffering convincing. Her tears and her simpers are no doubt the best of their kind in the motion picture business, but whereas her recent Hollywood directors (who know a good thing when they see one) have restricted Miss Schell's efforts almost exclusively to these two talents, M. Clement allows his star a fuller range of expression--with much more satisfactory results...
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...perusing the guest list at Madrid's Castellana Hilton hotel, genealogically minded Madrileños could contemplate in wonderment what complex twigs sprout from Hollywood's family trees. There, for example, in the splendid boarding house of Hotel Magnate Conrad Hilton was Cineminx Eva Gabor, sister of Hilton's ex-wife Zsa Zsa, whose former husband, Cinemenace George Sanders, had recently moved out with his new bride Benita Hume, widow of Cinemactor Ronald Colman. Eva, it so happens, is a former potential step-aunt of Cinemactress Elizabeth Taylor (through Liz's first marriage to Hilton...
...Franklin Roosevelt, who said it was his alltime favorite), once earned $15,000 for a single rendition. Vaudevillians Abbott and Costello joined forces in the '30s. Costello was the son of a Paterson, N.J. silkmaker. In younger, leaner days he had been a lightweight prizefighter and a Hollywood stunt man. Abbott had sold tickets in a theater box office. Their partnership hit the big time with the 1939 Broadway musical Streets of Paris, the big money with the 1941 film Buck Privates. Through 1951, they were almost always among the top ten moneymakers in Hollywood, pulling down as much...
Died. Fred Stone, 85, grand old man of show business, multitalented performer, actor, hoofer, singer, comedian, lariatist, tightrope walker, bareback rider, ventriloquist, mime, minstrel; after long illness and two years of total blindness; in North Hollywood, Calif. Famed as half of the vaudeville team of Montgomery & Stone, he made the leap to Broadway as the straw man in The Wizard of Oz (1903). Through such great hits as Victor Herbert's The Red Mill and Jerome Kern's Stepping Stones (in which his daughter Dorothy made her debut), Fred Stone became the nation's top musicomedian, later...