Word: photographed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exemplifies all the faults and all the virtues of all the pictures made in any given year, Love on the Run should win it. From the first word in its title to the last shot on the screen, of Crawford kissing Gable, it represents a kind of bright, composite photograph which, for historians, might be labeled Mass Entertainment 1936. Important only to historians, the median 1936 cinema should please the average 1936 cinemaddict. Average shot: Franchot Tone telling Joan Crawford a knock-knock: "Machiavelli good suit...
...last leaves of the Presidential trees when Franklin Roosevelt shuffled out on the egg-rolling lawn behind the White House. He promptly became the centre of a large gathering of mixed gender, for it was the annual occasion on which he shares the limelight with its authors, his annual photograph with White House newshawks. The rite performed, the crowd followed him into the oval reception room on the ground floor of the White House. There he sat and made gay quips as if he had nothing in the world to do. Actually he was a dreadfully busy man, for that...
...campaign headquarters in Chicago. When Wilson was elected Mr. Davies was made U. S. Commissioner of Corporations, later upped to chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. He was one of the bright young men of the Wilson Administration, and from another of that group he still has an old photograph inscribed. 'To my old side kick," signed "Franklin Roosevelt." He declined the job of Ambassador to Russia, or to Italy, or of Governor General of the Philippines, and elected in 1918 to run for Senator in Wisconsin. He was beaten by Republican Irvine Lenroot by a bare...
...cost 25% more. Part of the increase was caused by delay when Director Howard Hawks quit, after differences of opinion with Producer Goldwyn, to be replaced by William Wyler. Part was caused by Stunt Director Richard Rosson's discovery, when he went to the north woods to photograph lumberjacks riding falling trees or breaking up log jams, that these daring practices, familiar to preceding generations of lumberjacks, are scorned by contemporaries as unsophisticated generosity to their employers. He had to return to Hollywood to recruit a crew of fake lumberjacks with enough courage to do what real lumberjacks...
...plush carpet on the arm of a bearded man. Beatrice Wilhelmina Rahner Houdini and her business manager, Magician Edward Saint, seated themselves on thronelike chairs before a red-draped table. On the table lay a silver bell, a trumpet, a pair of handcuffs, a small shrine containing a photograph of the late Harry Houdini. This Halloween was the tenth anniversary of Harry Houdini's death in Detroit...