Word: horned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Edwina Booth who thrilled cinemaddicts of 1931 as the blonde goddess of Trader Horn reemerged in last week's news in strange contrast to the vigorous, vibrant creature the public remembered on the screen. She has been bedridden and confined to a dark room for two years, the result, she claims, of some tropical disease which she contracted while producing the picture in Africa. Would the courts, she pleaded, compel Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Trader Horn's producers, to give her $1,000,000 in a hurry so that she could get treatment in the School of Hygiene...
...Booth Woodruff Schuck-Booth for Edwin Booth, a distant relative; Woodruff for her elderly father, Dr. James Lloyd Woodruff, a Los Angeles and Pasadena family doctor; Schuck for Anthony G. Schuck, a second-string cinema director who had their marriage annulled when she returned from the production of Trader Horn in Africa. In 1928 Edwina Booth, a lithe, lively, insistent blonde, was earning an occasional $7.50 per day as a Hollywood extra. Director W. S. Van Dyke of M-G-M wanted "a milk-white blonde with a brunette's temper, or better yet a redhead...
...Trader Horn company sailed for Africa with only two other women in the party, the wife of Harry Carey (Trader Horn) and a script girl. Because the blonde goddess of African natives had to be tanned, ambitious Miss Booth sunbathed herself naked on the deck while the ship sailed down the blazing Red Sea to Mombasa on the African East Coast. To protect themselves from sunstroke Director Van Dyke and others of the company wore red underwear...
...foul-smelling oil which repelled the tsetse flies. Miss Booth, however, contracted malaria and dysentery, fell from a tree and almost fractured her skull, suffered a sunstroke. When she returned to Hollywood, her young husband, who had remained behind, got their marriage annulled. Wife of one of the Trader Horn actors sued her for $50,000 for alienation of affection. And M-G-M doctors took her in charge. Uncertain were they whether her debility was due to disease contracted in Africa or to a neurotic temperament. Before she finally collapsed she acted in three more pictures for independent producers...
...lots of acres . . . for ?3 in wampum" had been in the clothing business 27 years when news of gold at Suiter's Mill burst upon New York. He packed clipper ships with pants and coats as fast as they could be sewed together, sent them around the Horn to be traded for gold nuggets on the Coast...