Word: solids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from her late second husband Paul Owen Richmond), lost her purse in a Hollywood nightclub. The purse's contents: a diamond-studded gold cigaret lighter, a diamond-studded gold cigaret holder, a diamond-studded gold compact, a diamond-studded gold lipstick-&-perfume set, a diamond-studded pillbox, a solid gold scratch pad and pencil, a diamond-&-gold coin purse, a diamond-studded gold money clip, $500 in cash, and 40 solid gold keys. But no tooth powder...
...advantage. Instead, he reaped _the whirlwind. While the small (38,494) Yankee Stadium crowd was still oohing in amazement, Louis bounced off the ropes and went to work. Tami went down under a barrage of lefts and rights, got up at the count of nine, landed one more solid sock, took half a dozen in return. Then he slid slowly down the rópes and assumed the inelegant position of 20 Louis challengers before...
Universal, shrewdly delaying the picture's release, can now profit by Rex Harrison's first Hollywood job (Anna and the King of Siam), a solid box-office...
Color photography was not new (books had been written on it in 1855). But only one company, Technicolor Inc., had produced it successfully for the movies. Now Technicolor had a virtual monopoly of A pictures. This fact did not discourage Loss. Technicolor was booked solid (about 30 feature pictures a year, plus shorts), and it was turning business away. There seemed to be room for Cinecolor...
Then came the big break. Loss persuaded Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to make a $1 million horse opera called Gallant Bess in Cinecolor. Due for release this week, M-G-M expects it to be the "sleeper" (surprise hit) of the year. Result: Cinecolor is now booked solid until July 1947, expects to make its first profit this year, about $200,000 net. By the end of next year, Cinecolor expects to be printing 100 million feet of film a year, about half Technicolor's normal production. It also expects to turn out three-color films, with a new simplified...