Word: successful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is Ketti Gallian's first feature cinema. Producer Winfield Sheehan signed her in London, where, playing in The Ace, she had been enough of a success to start two fashion fads: red hair ribbons and black silk stockings. Previously she had been a chanteuse in French cafés, had made French shorts. While in The Ace, she used to fly to Paris every week-end to see the races at Longchamps. Her first Hollywood contract contained a clause making it compulsory for her to speak perfect English in 100 days. Before the time expired, studio officials made...
...these bonds were sold to big Chicago and Manhattan banks last week, and 10,000 salesmen were told that little orders would please Washington more than big ones. After the books were closed, Secretary Morgenthau said: "A complete success...
...theme of Gene Fowler's Father Goose. For once biographer and subject are an almost perfect match. Readers who never saw a Keystone comedy will have a hard time restraining their whoops as Gene Fowler unreels this fantastic slapstick-story of Hollywood success...
...majority of voters will not decide whether the policies of the Administration offer a satisfactory road to a universally desired recovery. Prospects for the revival of business, upon which Roosevelt has staked his success, will not receive consideration. It is the dangerous financial policies which the government is pursuing that will win support...
...Success Story," drama in three acts by John Howard Lawson, second offering of the Group Theater at the Majestic...