Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sense of humor. His favorite butt was the cook; he likes to remember creeping into the kitchen to surprise her by hiding a raw apple within one of her roasted chickens. His humor has not grown much more sophisticated. Recently, when asked why he had gone to see the Hollywood version of the Hemingway story The Killers, he replied: "I heard those gangsters had found a new way of making money...
However real she is gone, Toni Harper is obviously going further. A dreamy, fidgety little girl of ten, Toni is one of Hollywood's about-to-be-discovered wonders. Columbia Records will shortly release her first two records, and last week she was signed up for a Hollywood musical...
...practically choked. Why, a man said he'd write me a check for a million dollars for the screen rights. I wanted to accept just so I could see what a check for a million dollars looked like. But we want to do the thing ourselves in Hollywood some day, so we're not selling...
Except for General Motors' C. E. Wilson ($303,990) and Great Lakes Steel Corp.'s George R. Fink ($275,000), the rest of the big money earners were Hollywood workers. As usual, Hollywood has the nation's highest paid women; Ginger Rogers ($292,159) was ahead of Deanna Durbin by $30,000. (Betty Grable, last year's winner, was farther down the list with...
Other top Hollywood salaries: Director Leo McCarey ($355,426), Producer Walter Wanger ($282,899), Singer "'Dennis Morgan ($261,000), Barbara Stanwyck ($256,666), Lana Turner ($226,000). Actually, the Treasury report for the calendar year 1945, and the fiscal year ended in 1946, did not tell the whole income story. It listed only salaries paid by companies, and took no account of dividends, capital gains or the "collapsible corporations" which have earned many a Hollywoodian (and many a plain businessman) far more than his salary...