Word: oscared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Confirmed Oscar L. Chapman as Under Secretary of the Interior...
...Like It Here (by A. B. Shiffrin; produced by William Cahn) is a trying little comedy that wobbles from weakness when not hobbling from age. It plumps down a resourceful refugee (Oscar Karlweis) as houseman in a professor's none-too-happy home...
Joan Crawford, who had just won her first Oscar, sued to divorce her third husband. Actors Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Franchot Tone had each lasted almost four years. Actor Philip Terry and she separated last December after three years and five months. Said she, he was cruel and inhuman...
...History of a Scoundrel, starring George Sanders and having nothing to do with Anthony. It was not the first time Messrs. Loew and Lewin had brought art to Hollywood. Their Picture of Dorian Gray centered around a worm-crawling canvas painted by the Albright brothers, to portray Oscar Wilde's character .after his sins caught up with him. Few of the paintings of Anthony's temptation looked seductive enough to tempt a saint; mostly they seemed to show Anthony suffering the torments of hell...
...Oscar Wilde, who tried to set quite a few fashions himself, might have been amused to know that last week Moscow took the same disapproving view of him and his works as his most disapproving Victorian contemporaries ever did. For stooping to put on a brilliant performance of his entertaining An Ideal Husband, the famed Moscow Art Theater shivered under simultaneous critical broadsides from the 16-inch guns of Izvestia and Pravda...