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...Traubel has all her clothes-including her stage costumes-designed by Hollywood's Adrian. In the sewing room of Adrian's chic pastel salon, there is a headless and barrel-chested, size 46, grey muslin model standing majestically between those of Claudette Colbert, size 32, and Norma Shearer, size 32. Adrian's loose-leaf notebook lists the Traubel specifications after those for "Temple, Shirley." They tell a sizable story: "Bust, 51 inches [Shirley's is 34"]; waist, 45½ inches; upper hips, 47 inches; lower hips, 46 inches." The Isolde costumes required from...
...Alan Shearer Manning...
...years of trying to crash the screen, he was given his first sizable Hollywood role in 1931 (The Easiest Way, with Constance Bennett). By 1932 he was ranked among the top ten U.S. money-making stars. During the next decade he played opposite such glittering screen favorites as Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Marion Davies, Greta Garbo, Jean Harlow, Lana Turner. By 1934 he had made It Happened One Night, with Claudette Colbert, and with the won the Academy award...
...curative to be referred to by Louis B. Mayer as "my prestige star," to occupy Norma Shearer's former dressing room, to know that your next contract will raise you from a (reputed) $2,500 a week (plus stentorian bonuses) to a salary more suited to what is grandiosely called M.G.M.'s First Lady. It is gratifying to receive never fewer than 1,000 fan letters a week even if so many of them are from middle-aged lawyers, bankers and clergymen. It is perhaps even more gratifying to learn that one class of the Army Air Forces...
When a producer has a few extra millions that are feeling lonely, he concocts something like "The Crystal Ball." Not unlike the many thousand Melvyn Douglas-Norma Shearer-Joan Crawford-Robert Taylor et al gay sophisticated comedies that Hollywood has created under the categorical title of Ars Gratia Artis, "The Crystal Ball," with the Paulette Goddard-Ray Milland combo, makes a more distinctive showing at the box office than on the screen. Definitely an argument for the $25,000 a year income ceiling...