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Scores of famous names flutter effortlessly from Selznick's pages: Anita Loos, Irving Thalberg, Sam Goldwyn, Janet Gaynor, Katharine Hepburn, Ingrid Bergman, Greta Garbo and Uncle William, known at the office as Mr. Hearst. Banker-Politician Averell Harriman coached her in bridge and croquet, and Howard Hughes wanted her...
Neutra's intellectual origins were the same as those of his more famous fellow revolutionaries, Walter Gropius, Mies and LeCorbusier. As a student in Vienna, he deplored the degeneracy of dwelling in an ornamented past and longed for the exaltation of a pure and machine-made future. His hero...
Nothing piques him more than the sight of Europe influencing America: the White Gods, Gropius and Mies, land among the prostrated natives and colonize them, as simply as that. But, of course, it was not that simple. What happened was not invasion, but long reciprocal exchange, intellectual barter, as it...
DIED. Anita Loos, 88, pert, witty screenwriter, playwright and novelist who became an international celebrity after the publication of her 1925 spoof of sex and materialism, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes; in New York City. A former child actress, Loos sold her first film scenario to D.W. Griffith in 1912, thus beginning...
There is also new information about the era's most famous flameouts (D.W. Griffith, Buster Keaton, Erich von Stroheim) and the best-documented veterans (Gloria Swanson, King Vidor, Lillian Gish). Even the trivia somehow does not seem trivial. It is touching to hear Frank Capra recall Mack Sennett'...