Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...appearance of George C. Scott as a 1930s hood, all decked out in a rakish, broad-brimmed white Panama and a Raft-shouldered, double-breasted suit. But laugh softly and take a long second look. For the newest male mode is nothing less than a reissue of Hollywood's dependable old Double...
...wondrous cascades of music into all the concert halls of Europe. Sol Hurok brought him to America in 1937, and at 50, Rubinstein became a new idol. Everywhere, audiences clamored fqr him, and the critics threw superlatives at his fingers. During World War II, he moved his family to Hollywood, bought a rambling 15-room mansion next door to Ingrid Bergman and soon became movieland's great bon vivant. He chummed around with the Basil Rathbones and the Ronald Colmans, gave lavish garden parties, darted in and out of the gossip columns and society pages like a butterfly. There were...
Died. Robert Rossen, 57, Hollywood producerdirector, a onetime boxer from Manhattan's Lower East Side who, after some years as a Warner Bros, scriptwriter, turned to making his own movies "about things I knew as a kid," such as Body and Soul, 1949's Oscar-winning All the King's Men and The Hustler; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Died. Harold Freedman, 69, literary agent, a onetime actor who turned in his best performances peddling (for a 10% commission) Broadway shows to Hollywood, including Hello, Dolly! to 20th Century-Fox for $2,000,000, and My Fair Lady to Warner Bros, for $5,500,000 and 47½% of the gross over $20 million-highest price ever paid for movie rights; of a heart attack; in Manhattan...
Inside Daisy Clover. Like a benevolent and protective barracuda, Hollywood Producer Christopher Plummer eyes the grubby 15-year-old Daisy he has plucked from a honky-tonk beach town, and tells her: "I'm going to make something out of you-money." He soon transforms Daisy (Natalie Wood) into America's Little Valentine, a musical-comedy wonderkin to someone like the young Judy Garland...