Word: janet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest money making stars of 1932-33," picked by 12,000 exhibitors in Motion Picture Herald's annual poll: Marie Dressier, Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor, Eddie Cantor, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Mae West, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford...
Other musical passengers were less reticent. Conductor Bernardino Molinari was on his way to San Francisco to play several new compositions. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz was with Toscanini's pretty daughter Wanda whom he married a month ago in Milan (TIME, Jan. 1). Janet Olcott,17-year-old daughter of the late Chauncey Olcott, would make her piano début. Bubbling over with talk was mousey little Moshe Menuhin, father of Yehudi. Yehudi had practiced with Toscanini every day aboard ship and Toscanini was a "very lovable man." Yehudi had received two telegrams from Conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler...
...Delhi hotel keeper she announced that she thought of going into cinema, insisted that her name was Janet Gaynor...
...indi- vidual to be easily recognizable. A quality of style, indefinable but based on a gentle, knowing honesty, made important his telling of that story-which Janet Gaynor has been unconsciously burlesquing in most of her later pictures and which even Director Borzage, except in Street Angel, had never seriously rivaled till last week. Man's Castle, with its quiet climaxes and Loretta Young's superlatively sensitive acting, is a picture very nearly as good as Seventh Heaven. Take a Chance (Paramount) exhibits more of the appalling difficulties which, in the cinema, surround any attempt to produce...
...Paddy" has been subtitled "the next best thing," and it is truly the next best thing on the current Metropolitan program. Against the background of that baronial Ireland which his own plays made popular, Mr. Fiske O'Hara disports with his comely daughters, Janet Gaynor and Margaret Lindsay. All is a haze of moss, lichen, and the soft tints of old stone, with a plethora of brogue and much quasi-Irish sentiment, which is to say that "Paddy" is closely related to "Sweetheart Darlin'," and at a respectful distance from Synge and Lady Gregory. Warner Baxter is very rich...