Word: marilyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Film. Under contract to First National pictures are Cinemactors Richard Barthelmess, Jack Buchanan, Cinemactresses Marilyn Miller, Colleen Moore. Irene Bordoni. Last week they heard that Warner Brothers, previously jointly controlling First National with the Fox Film Corp., had bought the Fox holding for $10,000,000. Reason given by Cineman Fox for the sale was that First National Pictures are silent, that Fox Film Corp. intends producing only sound pictures...
...Marilyn Miller, blue-eyed dancer, $100,000 for a first picture. $100,000 for a second, $150,000 for a third. She has contracted with First National. Sued-First National, by Jack Case, stunter: $75 for being thrown to the ground while riding two bucking horses at the same time; $10 per fall for seven falls from a running horse; $25 per run for 24 runs driving six horses down a precipitous hill and crawling out on the tongue of the coach while the horses were at full speed; $100 for riding a horse off a 20-ft. cliff into...
...Wabash, Ind., Colonel Lindbergh invited Marilyn Lockwood, 9, for a flight. Chary, unimpressed, Marilyn demurred. "I never fly with anyone...
Except for Harry Lauder, who owns his own show and makes some $10,000 a week, Mr. Yoelson's salary is the largest known in theatrical circles. Marilyn Miller gets $6,000 in Rosali. Eddie Cantor, before his illness, was making $5,000 in Mr. Ziegfeld's Follies. Moran and Mack as a vaudeville team get $3,000 a week...
Many a U. S. theatregoer thinks of Miss Marilyn Miller as a pair of pirouetting toes plus a face as fresh & frank as a buttercup. Contrarily, in France, it is the frankness of her tongue that is remembered, resented. Last summer she declared, "Paris is the easiest place in the world to get a divorce-better even than Reno!" Last autumn she got herself a Versailles divorce from Cinemactor Jack Pickford. The result was that when tidings of her frank flippancy, and that of other U. S. divorce seekers in Paris, reached the ears of staid, august Minister of Justice...