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...Mary Pickford, sweetheart of the silents, wife of U.S. Navy Lieut. Charles ("Buddy") Rogers, adopted-six-year-old Ronald, planned to adopt seven-month-old Roxanne, hoped to adopt two more...
...dilapidated Ford and ceremoniously presented it to the doorman. For the opening of The Covered Wagon, Indians were brought from their reservation "by special permission of the U.S. Government." Grauman's best-known stunt was to catch the footprints of such stars as Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Pickford in wet cement-a trick that was later used for John Barrymore's profile. Quipped Barrymore, as he caressed the cement: "I feel like the face on the barroom floor...
...Broadway the first year, $860,000 the second, could still count on a tidy sum the third, while road companies grossed $2,000,000 more. Inwardly they rocked with laughter thinking of the $15,000 Warner Bros, had once offered for the film rights; but last year when Mary Pickford offered half a million, their no was just as brusque...
...picture is a swing version of the Little Annie Rooney that curly-locked Mary Pickford played to the last tear drop 17 years ago. Shirley is a modern jitterbug from the other side of the tracks. Her talents so stun a rich Manhattan youngster (Dickie Moore) that he invites her to his socialite birthday party. Clad in a glistening, gold-spangled evening dress, Cinderella Temple jitterbugs her way into the Social Register hearts of her boyfriend's parents...
...picture which her new employers assigned her was called The Poor Little Rich Girl when Mary Pickford played it in 1917. It was called the same thing when Miss Temple breezed through a more modern version five years ago, for 20th Century-Fox. Now it's Kathleen, unhappy daughter of a widower (Herbert Marshall) who neglects her, the rebellious charge of a governess who maltreats her. Of course, Miss Temple rights all wrongs by getting rid of the governess, of her father's butterfly fiancee (Gail Patrick), and by marrying daddy off to her nice new governess (Laraine...