Word: nagel
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...Nagel does not agree with President Roosevelt's statement that movie stars are overpaid. He said: "Take Mae West--she was the whole attraction in her picture, 'She Done Him Wrong.' The picture took in about $2,500,000; and yet Miss West probably received less than two per cent of that figure. As long as she brings in the box receipts, she should get the money; because in ten years probably no one will know who Mae West...
...Lewis' story of a woman social worker is satisfactory material for the cinema. As adapted by Jane Murfin it briefly shows Ann Yickers (Irene Dunne) at the start of her career, coolly fencing off the admiration of a clownish confrère and a suave young barrister (Conrad Nagel). It deals more comprehensively with her wartime love affair with Captain Resnick (Bruce Cabot). After these preliminary romances and Ann's brief, unhappy experience as a prison-executive, the picture launches enthusiastically into the matter of her liaison with Judge Barney Dolphin (Walter Huston...
...agents were against the proposal. Organized opposition came from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences, which has supported studio employes in their demand for an audit of studio books as a preliminary to the wage cut. After a stormy meeting of the Academy's directors Cinemactor Conrad Nagel, the Academy's president, resigned last week. Cinema writers got a union organizer to help them reform the Screen Writers' Guild. Its 312 members agreed to have no dealings with the Bureau, planned to prevent producers from buying material from non-Guild members...
...industry, fewer celebrities than usual were present. Instead of introducing the prizewinners directly Toastmaster Barrymore paused before each name while a portion of the dialog from each prizewinning picture came through amplifiers. The dinner served also as an inaugural for the Academy's new president, Cinemactor Conrad Nagel, to succeed Producer M. C. Levee...
...Rabbi Edgar Magnin, was a $25,000 display of flowers estimated by the undertaker to be the greatest display in Hollywood history. Nosing about outside the chapel was a crowd of 2,000. Inside were a score of Hollywood celebrities. Excerpts from the eulogy delivered by Cinemactor Conrad Nagel: "This can't be the end. His gentle spirit is still with us. We bid you godspeed, Paul Bern, on your journey to a better place and we say here in your own words and in all reverence: 'We'll be seeing...