Word: movieland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lighter than life, her teeth in permanent caps, her nubile curves seductively displayed. Although her most ambitious job of work since then has been an unimpressive performance in an unimpressive picture called Indianapolis Speedway, Warners' smart young West Coast publicity chief, Bob Taplinger, has made her one of movieland's brightest extracurricular celebrities...
...movieland Jimmy Roosevelt lives as quietly as he can, in a Beverly Hills house with two bedrooms and a swimming pool. Except for command appearances at Goldwyn parties and entertaining an occasional celebrity, he goes out little, devotes one evening a week to his duties on the executive committee of the Motion Picture Relief Fund. He has taken Merle Oberon out to dinner. Although he has transferred his 40-foot motor cruiser, New Moon, to a Pacific anchorage, he has left his wife in the East, keeps his voting residence in Framingham, Mass. Jimmy how first-names most of Hollywood...
...daily drawing, Seem Stars, appears daily in hundreds of newspapers. His Stars are all movieland heroes and heroines, but Feg could turn his spotlight on his own family for some stars. His father Dr. A. T. Murray, was head of the Greek department of Stanford University for 40 years. His brother, Robert Murray, was National Clay Courts Tennis Champion...
...MOVIELAND, a Phi Beta Kappa key is about as useful as a recommendation from a high school dramatics coach, Franchot Tone wears the key from Cornell. As Earnest Sharpe, Actor Erik Rhodes earned one at the University of Oklahoma. Though he hasn't yet attained the eminence of Brother Tone, Erik Rhodes works just as steadily in pictures and in due time will make almost as much money. You saw him first as the dapper, sputtering foreigner in the Astaire Rogers film, Gay Divorce. He stayed in Hollywood to play in top Hat. New he is likely...
...Movieland is a thinly-disguised portrait of Hollywood: a series of cinematic, lavishly colored scenes strung together on the thinnest thread of plot-a revue in words, in modern, cynical-sensual style. Hero Jacques Struk, of no stated occupation, comes to Movieland, falls in love with one of its minor but typical stars, artificial, Kleig-eyed, burntout; after her death he fades from the picture. Movieland is ruled by Director Emerson, absolute autocrat; its queen is Carlotta Bray, perennial virgin lover, who gives herself to millions on the screen, to none in the flesh, and is finally raped to death...