Word: janet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dream. Year ago Adrian decided it was time to make his dream come true. He had saved a lot of money and he married ex-Star Janet Gaynor (who people say is worth $4,000,000). He would have the most beautiful custom salon in the country. By September he had signed a ten-year lease for the Victor Hugo, once a fine restaurant,* then fancy nightclub, and planned expensive alterations. But when war came, his expenses, for a temporary shop on Beverly Drive, a factory in downtown Los Angeles, and Press Agent Russell Birdwell, were about...
Vaudeville's veteran Funnyman Pat Rooney II, 62, got a license to marry blonde Actress Janet Reade, onetime member of Eddie Cantor's Whoopee, one time wife of Funnyman Pat's son, Pat Rooney III. Said Pat Rooney II of Pat Rooney III: "I haven't seen him for some years." Said Actress Janet Reade: "I haven't seen him either. Anyway I like his father better. He's a funny little guy but I love...
...days. Producer Jed Harris, co-author Philip Dunning, co-author-director George Abbott rode it to a standstill: at one time eight road companies were playing to standing room only. Now it is a worn period piece. The story, about a small-time hoofer (George Raft) and his partner (Janet Blair) and their hope of getting out of nightclubs into the big time, has been turned into a personal vehicle for Cinemactor Raft. He plays himself (a Holly-wood star) under his own name...
Seven nights a week the dusky, barnlike basement of Manhattan's 44th Street Theater is crammed and crawling with pleasure-seekers. No liquor is served, but there is dancing to hot name bands, with pretty show girls and such movie stars as Bette Davis and Janet Gaynor waiting to be picked off as partners. On the walls are gay murals by the theater's top scene designers-Jo Mielziner, Donald Oenslager, Raoul Pène du Bois, Gertrude Lawrence, Eddie Cantor, the dancing De Marcos, the Quiz Kids with Tallulah Bankhead as Quizmaster, are part of the endless...
...father, a British foreign service attache, had paddled away from the sinking Lady Hawkins with Janet in his arms and his wife struggling beside him. When Janet became feverish, Chief Officer Kelly gave her a spoonful of brandy. Janet began to laugh. Her shipmates laughed with her-the only time they laughed. Most of the time they prayed. For five days the little company floated on the Atlantic, until the S.S. Coamo spotted them...