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...years moviemakers have been trying to lure Douglas away from Broadway, but he refused their long-term contracts. During his first few scenes in A Letter he suffered all the shakes and quivers of opening night. When the movie was completed he took a deep breath and signed a seven-year contract...
...build up a reserve, she saved money, chiefly by cutting down on clothes. When Warner tried to put her back into the slush-mines after lending her out to play Melanie in Gone With the Wind, she rebelled and was suspended for a total of six months. Her seven-year contract at last expired (in 1943) and Warner tried to make her serve the extra six months she had "lost." Against the advice of everyone in the profession, she carried the case through three courts, at a cost of $13,000 of her own money and a year...
...Monday's social calendar are children's parties at Bertram Hall, Everett House, and 20 Walker st. Everett and Bertram have both decided to keep house yuletide parties the traditionally all-feminine event, Everett asking for two hour's worth of girls in the seven-year age bracket and Bertram inviting 20 girls of the same age through the assistance of the Cambridge Family Society. 20 Walker's seven-year-olds will come from the Margaret Fuller House in Cambridge...
Disney and Kamen had just signed a seven-year renewal of a 16-year business association. As the salesman of exclusive manufacturing rights for Mickey Mouse and other Disney characters, Kamen has not only planted their likenesses on children's watches, but on 2,000 other products, ranging from meat, breakfast foods and fruit juices to weather vanes, candy, cameras, toys, sweaters, ice cream packages and wallpaper. This year goods bearing the faces of Disney characters will bring in a retail gross of $100 million...
...Wind, There Shall Be No Night). He is that rare bird with both screen personality and acting talent. Rarer still for a newcomer, he is getting his own way about contracts. He refused to play pretty juveniles or mannikins, and the dread of being "owned" by Hollywood made a seven-year contract no more inviting than the seven-year itch...