Word: lew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...October because, as Reader Whitmore states, their total weight made the floor unsafe. There is no Congressional resolution limiting the number of statues in Statuary Hall, but Congress did authorize the relocation of statues. Many a famous pair was separated: Illinois' Frances Willard stays without James Shields; Indiana's Lew Wallace without Oliver P. Morton; Mississippi's Jefferson Davis without James Z. George; New York's Robert Livingston without George Clinton; Wisconsin's Robert M. La Follette without Jacques Marquette. Particularly delicate was the problem in the case of Rhode Island and Virginia. Eventually Nathanael Greene and George Washington were...
...wardrobe and learn how to cook, sew, and other things. She comes back home with a chauffeur on her mind and it does not surprise the audience that the chauffeur is also a budding engineer and his father-in-law the largest motor manufacturer in Sweden. Janet Gaynor and Lew Ayres take one and a half fairly amusing hours to make the "big decision...
...ridiculous of any man in modern times." When he laughed at a gag, audiences were sure to howl over it. The roster of his employes reads like a Hollywood Hall of Fame: Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Gloria Swanson, "Fatty" Arbuckle, W. C. Fields, Ben Turpin, Harold Lloyd, Weber & Fields, Lew Cody, Louise Fazenda, Bebe Daniels, Buster Keaton, Hal Roach, many another. It was Mack Sennett who imported Charlie Chaplin, overcame his disastrous first appearance by changing his make-up and costume. With a boilermaker's education, habits and vocabulary. Sennett distrusted such academic impedimenta as written scripts, insisted...
Shoot the Works (Paramount) contains two actors who have died since the picture was completed: Lew Cody, as a hardboiled theatrical manager whose slogan is "Goodby, please"; and Dorothy Dell, as a successful night club singer...
...Died. Lew Cody (Louis Joseph Cote), 49. cinemactor; of a heart attack, in his sleep; in Beverly Hills. He was born in Waterville, Me., studied medicine at McGill University, Montreal. An interest in amateur theatricals led him to one-night stands, vaudeville. His success as a suave villain in silent cinemas (For Husbands Only, Rupert of Hentzau) was repeated in talkies (Wine, Women & Song, Madison Square Garden-). He was twice married to Dorothy Dalton (now Mrs. Arthur Hammerstein), once to the late Mabel Normand...