Word: prop
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gentleman Director. A rare bird in Hollywood is tall (6 ft. 3), white-haired,-stoop-shouldered Howard Hawks. A quiet, cultured citizen, he was educated in engineering at Cornell ('17), served in the Air Corps (not overseas) in World War I, broke into movies as a prop man with the old Famous Players-Lasky. When he inherited $150,000 from his grandfather, he plunged it all in a Western (Ben Hampton of Placer), tripled his money, lost it all on a second Western (never finished...
...main prop of the Castillo policy of continued Axis recognition has been the contention that, while the U.S. might disapprove of Argentine neutrality, Britain favored it. This likewise was a theme for Axis propaganda. The official Information Bulletin of Argentina's Foreign Ministry recently reprinted excerpts from an article in a London periodical about Argentine neutrality. The gist of the article, in the Argentine version, was that everything was all right so far as Britain was concerned...
...raising hob with production. One horror: a $5,000 top on new materials used in the sets in any one picture. To movie directors who once thought nothing of spending $300,000 for stages and costumes in a single musicomedy, this is the end of the line. But the prop boys went to work, are now using such non-Hollywood items as retouched scenery, secondhand lumber, repaired costumes-even unkinked used nails. Besides this WPB has cut film use by 10% to 24%, threatens a still bigger cut next year...
...films, and very slow going, after he got there. Wayne, born Marion Michael Morrison in Winterset, Iowa, was raised on a California ranch. At the University of Southern California he picked up the nickname "Duke," was an honor student. Vacations, he worked as a truck driver, an iceman, a prop...
...dance pirouettes on your prop...