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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Success in the movies came more slowly. Having achieved complete mastery over the air, Hope remained a flop on the lot. At last Paramount woke up, but it made Hope wake up also. Before handing him the lead in The Cat and the Canary, Paramount Producer Arthur Hornblow talked to Hope like a Dutch uncle, told him he'd do anything for a laugh-gore another actor, bolt clean out of character. Hope began, fumed Hornblow, by making audiences grin, ended by making them grit their teeth. The Cat and the Canary clicked: since then Hope has whizzed through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Hope for Humanity | 9/20/1943 | See Source »

Married. Cinemactress Myrna Loy, 36; and John D. Hertz Jr., 33, Manhattan advertising man, son of the founder of Yellow Cab Co.; five days after her divorce from Cineproducer Arthur Hornblow Jr.; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 15, 1942 | 6/15/1942 | See Source »

Divorced. By Cinemactress Myrna Loy, 36: Cineproducer Arthur Hornblow Jr., 49; in Reno...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 8, 1942 | 6/8/1942 | See Source »

Died. Arthur Hornblow Sr., 77, long-time editor of Theater Magazine (1901-26), father of Cineproducer Arthur Jr., and father-in-law of Myrna Loy; after a stroke; in Asbury Park...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, May 18, 1942 | 5/18/1942 | See Source »

Myrna Loy said she was going to divorce Producer Arthur Hornblow Jr., declared, according to tradition: "Arthur and I are still the best of friends...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Literary Life | 4/6/1942 | See Source »

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