Word: movieman
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Neck & neck down the stretch last week, battling to be the year's top money-winning racing-stable owner, came two beauty specialists: Cosmetician Elizabeth Arden and Movieman Louis B. Mayer. Arden's Star Pilot won the Belmont Futurity and $52,940. Mayer's Busher won the Hollywood Derby and $40,470 (to become the alltime tenth best moneywinner*). The dollar derby between the stables stood: Mayer $452,605, Arden...
Last week Movieman Kalatozov was still politely uncommunicative but a two-hour grilling through an interpreter had elicited this information...
...movieman hired a new Negro maid. On her first day at work her employer asked what her name was. Said she: "Pislam...
...Film Corp., heard himself sentenced to $20,000 fine, three years in prison, for evading $250,000 in Federal income taxes. His co-defendant and assistant, Joseph Moskowitz, was sentenced to a year and a day and fined $10,000 for "aiding and abetting." Shocked by his sentence, Movieman Schenck recovered to ride out to LaGuardia Field, bid good-by to his friends Norma Shearer and Lady Ashley (Douglas Fairbanks' widow) as they left for Hollywood...
Since Jimmy left his $30,000-a-year berth as vice president of Samuel Goldwyn. Inc. (which has suspended production pending the outcome of a legal fight between Movieman Goldwyn and his United Artists co-stockholders), he has also been working on a scheme to make shorts to be exhibited in vending machines (TIME, March 4). Meantime he has moved from his Beverly Hills house-awf-swimming pool to a modest apartment on the other and wrong side of town, now keeps no servants, drives his own car. Says Jimmy: "Joe Kennedy* once told me, 'There are only...