Word: morosco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Autumn Crocus" -- Morosco, 45th Street W.--Another romance in the Tyrol relieved by the magnetic, dancing Francis Lederer who has already attracted Hollywood. Bracing as mountain...
...became a program boy in the local theatres. At 16 he set out for the Orient, knocked about Shanghai, Canton, Hongkong. When he got home he began writing plays and song lyrics. He wrote the lyrics for the late great Enrico Caruso's "Dreams of Long Ago." Then Oliver Morosco called him out to California to write the music and lyrics for the oldtime hit So Long Letty. After that he wrote Eddie Cantor's first musical comedy, Canary Cottage. By the time the War came, Producer Carroll was made. He enlisted as a private in the air service...
Warner Baxter's preparation for his present role as a range-rider involved two years as juvenile lead with the North Brothers Stock Company of Dallas, Tex., and seven years on the road for Oliver Morosco. Since he was born in Columbus, Ohio, and began to show ability for theatricals when he was ten, his friends have never been able to tell where he learned to ride. He is a clever horseman; his favorite diversions are trapping and hunting. During a period when he gave up show business because of his mother's opposition, he sold first farm...
Many cinema-seers insist that Corinne Griffith is the most beautiful woman in pictures. Fifty famed artists have painted her portrait in oils, her ankles are shapely, and her hands have been modeled by numerous sculptors. Her husband, producer Walter Morosco, uses a bronze mould of her left hand as a paper weight on his desk. Last week in Los Angeles she pleaded guilty to a charge that she had tried to evade paying-part of the tax on her 1927 income ($198,000) and was fined $1,000. She says that after she has made one more picture...