Word: sweethearts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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More than 10,000 people watched 100 officers fire 700 shots at Crowley, his 16-year-old sweetheart, and Duringer in a siege which cost $2,600. Inefficient gas bombs flung by the police were flung back at them before they exploded. But after an hour, little Crowley, wounded and out of ammunition, surrendered. Fat Duringer had been hiding under the bed. Pleased that the murder of the red-headed dancer had taken the city's attention from the murder of another red-headed girl-Benita Franklin Bischoff alias Vivian Gordon, vice racketeer, whose death...
...lack of evidence. Because she has become a legend in her own lifetime, Mary Pickford feels these truths strike home. Shrewdest business woman in pictures, she has been secretly buying her old pictures to destroy them, to wipe out, except in the imagination of future generations, "America's Sweetheart" of 1910 to 1930, the golden-ringleted girl who, in the changing fashions of two decades, wept, smiled, loved, pantomimed in Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, Poor Little Rich Girl, Daddy Long Legs, Madame Butterfly. Interviewed last week in Manhattan, Mary Pickford said: "Even the greatest stage artists of the past...
...Donald Ogden Stewart wrote this one, which seems, and in all likelihood is, a rejected draft of his famed Laughter. The framework of the two is identical-a young woman marries a rich man for his money and then, deciding she cannot stand it, goes back to an early sweetheart. But here apparently a production conference was called, the keynote of which was "Now, make it different. Not like Laughter." Miss Bankhead leaves her husband just when he has lost all his money; when she goes to her lover she finds him unfaithful to her. She struggles with poverty, bears...
Hero Dan Gardiner, Princetonian, is "rich as a louse" but woe comes to him nevertheless. His sweetheart, Lois Miller, whose charm is not clearly indicated, marries another man. Hero Gardiner lies about a drinking scrape, is expelled from the university. After he loafs around home for a while, spending his time with a group of undistinguishable cronies who drink a greal deal and generally do not amount to much. Dan's kindly Uncle Mark is sympathetic when the young man confesses a longing for another summer at Fawn Lake, the resort where, during a previous summer, his love affair with...
...handsome English toff he passes the captain's baby off as his own, retaining custody of it after they are divorced. Miss Bennett suffers in marriage with him, suffers when separated from her child, suffers when she must live in poverty and not even see her old sweetheart for fear Sir Wilfred Drake (Paul Cavanaugh) will hear of it and continue his refusal to let her see the baby. But the most awful moment of suffering takes place when, permitted to see the baby for the first time in two years, she arrives at the house just after...