Word: hollywooding
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Myron Selznick, Hollywood talent agent, put $6,000 on his own entry. The $50 parimutuel windows trailed long queues of cinema celebrities, the $5 windows were stampeded. Over $1,370,000 was bet in four hours. It was a holiday in Hollywood and most studio folk, from Clark Gable down to the lowliest stagehand, were among the 60,000 people celebrating Washington's Birthday with a day at the races...
Like a true Hollywood star, Stagehand had earned $42,775 in less than two minutes, promptly became a favorite for the Kentucky Derby...
...unusual glut of expensive motion pictures thrust forth by Hollywood in recent weeks,* cinemaudiences probably have the California tax collector to thank. For all film, raw or exposed, on Hollywood shelves when the assessors make their annual visits on March's first Monday, the studios are taxed. The way to beat the tax is to empty the shelves. When the assessors made their rounds this week, most cupboards were bare. But at luckless Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the vast amount of film necessary for Norma Shearer's Marie Antoinette was still in stock, the picture only half completed...
...froth of excitement out of the eggy idea that a butler may have political theories as well as a desire for the boss's daughter. Based on Ladislaus Bus-Fekete's wishy-washy comedy of Flungarian manners. The Lady Has a Heart (TIME, Oct. 4), it is Hollywood's first attempt to stereotype blonde, personably gamine French Actress Annabella. Annabella (real name: Suzanne Charpentier) was first noticed by U. S. cinemaudiences in 1931 in French Director Rene CLair's Le Million. Her first English-speaking picture was British made Wings of the Morning (TIME, March...
...current How To Get Tough About It (TIME, Feb. 21 ), Playwright Ardrey in Casey Jones shows talent not yet under control. He shuttles between comedy and tragedy, reality and make-believe, Hollywood and Provincetown...