Word: successful
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...success of racial intermarriage is one of the most charming and encouraging things about life in the Indies...
...Star System. His success was dazzling. For three decades tough, cocksure L. B. Mayer was the most important man in Hollywood. He knew exactly what Americans wanted and he gave it to them, by ballyhooing unknown kids into superglamorous movie stars. He found Robert Taylor at Pomona College and Joan Crawford in a chorus line. His star system, soon copied by his competitors, developed Gilbert, Murray, Gable, Tracy, Garson, Garbo, Powell, Astaire and Turner, clustered them and others in such big-money films as Ben Hur, The Good Earth, Grand Hotel and Dinner at Eight. If need be, Mayer could...
Mayer's contract with M-G-M gave him 10% of the studio's profits. For seven years in the late '30s and early '40s he was the highest-paid executive in the nation, in 1937 made $1,296,503. Success never softened his muscle. Hollywood had it that at one time or another he used his fists tellingly on Charlie Chaplin, Walter Wanger and Sam Goldwyn...
...Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? Frank Tashlin's spoof of Manhattan's television-advertising industry; with Tony Randall as Rock, Jayne Mansfield as herself (TIME...
...began directing her musical career), Ruth Slenczynska is in the midst of a powerful comeback. After one false start, she returned to concertizing six years ago, has since played more than 600 concerts in Europe and the U.S., recently recorded three LPs for Decca. With a measure of success she has risen to a measure of compassion, and though in Forbidden Childhood she condemns her father (he died six years ago) for what he was, she forgives him for what he did. Perhaps through his own fault, her father's prophecy that she would be one of the world...