Word: maes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...adaptation. In the part that 25-year-old Florence McGee plays on the stage, solemn nervous Bonita Granville, 13, makes herself as odious as any little girl who has yet appeared in cinema. Among the other children concerned, major acting honors in These Three go to plump little Marcia Mae Jones, as Rosalie, Mary Tilford's unwilling accomplice. Good shot: Mary blackmailing Rosalie into corroborating her baseless story by threatening to accuse her of stealing...
Anon, I to Mr. Hersey's class and there did hear one pretty Dorothy Speare, author of the film, "One Night of Love", discover "Aristotle in Hollywood". I was much surprised to learn that Mae West neither smokes nor drinks and goes to bed at nine. How these flickers fool...
...Cinemactress Mae West, last week was possibly the liveliest she has experienced since she entered the cinema industry in 1932. The Hearst editorials she inspired, however useful they may have proved as publicity for Klondike Annie, were not intended to be laudatory. They were part of a sudden Hearst campaign against Miss West supposedly inspired by a slighting remark she was reported to have made about Cinemactress Marion Davies. While they ballyhooed the picture with angry editorials, Hearst papers paradoxically refused to carry paid advertising...
...Manhattan Actor Frank Wallace, who last spring announced that he and Mae West were married in Milwaukee in 1911 and had never been divorced, re-opened his suit to prove it. Said Mae West: "Wait a minute, sweetheart-which Frank Wallace is it? There are three of them. ... I'm not married to him and I never...
Also last week, Publisher Hearst ordered Hearstpapers to throw out all advertisements and news of Mae West's new cinema Klondike Annie (see p. 44), start an editorial campaign against it. Editorial excerpts: "It is an IMMORAL and INDECENT film. . . . The story, scenes and dialog are basically libidinous and sensual. . . . Decent people will protest against . . . showing a white woman in the role, even inferred, of consort to a Chinese vice lord...