Word: hollywooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood, Republic Pictures announced a cinema starring Gene Autry titled Hillbilly Governor based on the musical campaign of W. Lee ("Pass the Biscuits, Pappy") O'Daniel, Governor-Nominate of Texas...
Died. Pearl White, 41, and Warner Oland, 57, respectively heroine and villain of The Fatal Ring, Wartime cinema serial thriller; Miss White in Paris of a liver ailment, Mr. Oland in Stockholm of bronchopneumonia. Throughout her career as serial queen, Miss White never used a double, never visited Hollywood. Mr. Oland, who often threatened cinema death to daring, cliff-hanging Heroine White, won further fame as Detective Charlie Chan in a recent series of mystery films; Miss White in 1921 retired to Paris with a fortune...
Only major effort of the cinema industry's craftsmen to grab the profits of their own pictures was United Artists, which, formed in 1919, long since passed out of their hands. Last fortnight Hollywood got fair warning of another effort along similar lines when Agent Myron Selznick, who makes about $1,000,000 a year, announced that he would use some of it to help Director Ernst Lubitsch launch a company to be known as Ernst Lubitsch Productions, Inc. From it Director Lubitsch would draw a share of profits instead of a salary. Last week the Selznick system...
...whose major worries, before he failed in 1923, were: 1) how to get stars like Clara Kimball Young, Olive Thomas and Owen Moore to act for as little as possible; and 2) how to teach the business to his sons, who used to do odd jobs around the office. Hollywood gossips last week were wondering whether Myron's latest scheme might not cause his father, who believed in sharing as few profits as he could, to turn over in his grave...
...Texans (Paramount). Equipped with more manners and poise than most cinemactors, Randolph Scott is one of the few who have married heiresses. His wife, from whom he is separated, was Marian du Pont. When not in Hollywood he likes to attend swank horse shows and hunt races...