Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Family Circle. In Cincinnati, Oscar Griggs decided to divorce his second wife, who insisted, he declared, on living with his first wife and her second husband...
...More You Spend . . ." Hughes got mad. He also got a good story and a good director, Marshall Neilan, and made a successful picture called Everybody's Acting, which returned 50% on his $150,000 investment. He made another, Two Arabian Nights, directed by Lewis Milestone, who won an Oscar for his work on it. The scoffing died down...
...stage-struck Newark boy who acted on Broadway, then switched to writing. After six years as a Hollywood scripter, Dore Schary (rhymes, in Hollywood, with hoary sherry) won an Oscar for his work on Boys Town (1938). He moved forward fast-right into a producer's office, first with MGM, later with David Selznick...
Last week Hollywood was eying television with deep interest: ¶ The first top-rank movie star to get into TV on a contract basis was Oscar Winner Ronald Colman. For an undisclosed sum, said Producer Ben Finney, Colman had agreed to narrate and act in 26 half-hour telefilms: 13 Charles Dickens stories, and 13 by Robert Louis Stevenson. Colman may also narrate a series of O. Henry dramas...
...Crusades (Paramount), produced in 1935 by Cecil B. DeMille, has been reissued on two pretexts: that war has come again to the Holy Land; that an Oscar has just come to Loretta Young, the picture's star. Neither excuse is necessary. The film just about attains the DeMillen-nium of screen spectacles and is worth a second look...