Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...incidents on which Beloved Enemy are based are so exciting that it would be hard for them to inspire a really dull picture. Lacking the succinct power of The Informer, this first Hollywood effort of 31-year-old Director Henry C. Potter, who got his start in the young New York theatrical firm of Potter & Haight, will probably reach and please an even larger audience. Strenuously romantic, magnificently acted and produced, it contains numerous moments of honest cinematic intensity: Riordan and his best friend (Jerome Cowan) escaping from English soldiers across the Dublin roofs; the wife (Karen Morley...
...Hollywood, cross-eyed Comedian Ben Turpin, 62, bemoaned his idleness, exclaimed: "I'd be terrific as a studio gatekeeper. Imagine-the only guy in the business who could see 'em coming and going...
...even better one by George & Ira Gershwin. There is Gracie Barrie to keep the good songs ringing clear, Buxom Mitzi Mayfair to strut the hot numbers, Paul Haakon to leap through the smooth ones. There is Bert Lahr, the most emphatic comedian on the revue stage, as a noisy Hollywood actor trying to chisel out of paying his income tax and as an over-manly baritone in a hickory shirt bellowing, "What do you chop when you chop a tree!" while occasionally getting an untimely handful of chips thrown in his face from the wings...
...station in 1926, founded the chain in 1928. The system began television experimenting in 1931, now televises nightly over W6XAO, once a week with synchronized sound from KHJ. President of Don Lee Broadcasting System since his father died in 1934 has been Thomas Stewart Lee, 30, a favorite in Hollywood cinema circles and a shrewd manager of Don Lee's auto and radio interests...
...transcontinental motor trip to Hollywood, Gladys Cecil Georgina Lady Guernsey, mother of the cinemastruck Earl of Aylesford, paused at Dallas, had 18 pairs of shoes, four suitcases full of clothes and two sable wraps worth $25,000 stolen from her parked...