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Tallyho. Actors with plain, pronounceable, American Legion sort of names yearn for toning up. Ruby Stevens is Barbara Stanwyck; Peggy Middleton is Yvonne De Carlo; Norma Jeane Baker is Marilyn Monroe. Even Gladys Smith found a little more stature in the name Mary Pickford. On the other hand, embarrassed bluebloods shed their hyphens and thus declare their essential homogeneity with the masses. Reginald Truscott-Jones was too obviously soaked in tallyho. He became Ray Milland. Spangler Arlington Brugh denuded himself of all his nominal raiment and emerged as Robert Taylor. Audrey Hepburn-Ruston amputated it neatly...
...propelled him from a drugstore in Manhattan's Chinatown to an estimated $100 million in movie earnings, Schenck possessed a way with people that won him the trust of all filmdom, enabled him to function as Hollywood's peacemaker (he settled the long-standing feud between Mary Pickford and Charlie Chaplin) and to launch a clutch of stars ranging from Norma Talmadge (his wife from 1917 to 1934) to Marilyn Monroe...
...complete zero, and non-Hearst critics-including the New York Times-now and then gave her a line of modest praise. But her pictures continued to lose money, and since it had been apparent for some time to both of them that she never would become another Mary Pickford, in 1937 Marion made her last picture. She and Pops more or less settled down to the life of Midas-at their 55-bathroom, $3,250,000 beach palace in Santa Monica, and the twin-towered $30 million Hearst castle at San Simeon...
...confusing goo with good. The story distilled Victorian sentiment to its treacly essence, and readers of all ages lapped it up. More than a million copies of Pollyanna were sold, and by 1920 the book had been made into a Broadway hit and a Hollywood movie starring Mary Pickford. Forty years later, with his infallible instinct for what will fill the public's sweet tooth. Walt Disney has taken Pollyanna off the back shelf and, at a cost of $3,200,000, has photographed the little horror in throbbing colors, bloated it with big names (Jane Wyman, Richard Egan...
Jumbo died in 1910, and the golden age of heiresses and coronets went with him. The same year, Mary Pickford became America's sweetheart. As Author Eliot sees it, the events were symbolically linked. The age of society, such as it was, had ended, and the U.S. entered the age of celebrities, such as they...