Word: somes
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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"As most of you know, I have devoted a third of a century to our industry . . . Yet at this time, when the industry demands and requires a fixed habit of production economy, seems I can't get a job . . . Must we always wait until a productive pioneer is found...
The letter was signed by B. P. Schulberg who, at 57, had reaped the rewards of a full Hollywood producing career: money, enemies and some impressive credentials. He was the man who discovered Clara Bow, dubbed Mary Pickford "America's Sweetheart," helped to form United Artists, produced Wings, which...
During the last 15 years, while he "gambled my money away" on dice and the stock market, Schulberg has watched his jobs shrink in importance. Finally, he began haunting cinemoguls' anterooms looking for a job. Says he: "I got the cold shoulder." His open letter offered some explanation: "Some...
The doors stayed closed. Many an old-timer resented Schulberg's public airing of a private grievance; some speculated skeptically on how quickly he would have shut the door on such an appeal when he was on the inside. But at week's end, Showman Schulberg reported a...
Deanna testified against her second husband, 47-year-old Felix Jackson, who helped to write some of her early hits (Mad About Music, Three Smart Girls Grow Up), and produced her most recent flops (I'll Be Yours, Because of Him). She told the judge that a year after...