Word: sylva
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Louisiana Purchase (Paramount) is the kind of tasteful, tuneful, genial, comic job that Hollywood often boggles. But Paramount knew what it was up to a year ago when it drafted Broadway's Buddy De Sylva, producer of the Broadway original, and made him production head of the studio...
...best women golfers in the U.S. include Helen Silleck Holleran (co-owner of the New York Yankee baseball empire), Sylva Annenberg Leichner (niece of Publisher Moe Annenberg) and Grace Amory (ex-stepsister of Turfman Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt). Last week in Brookline, Mass., these gold-spoon golfers and no other top-flight amateurs matched strokes for the Women's Golf Championship...
Tough, fun-loving little Songwriter B. G. ("Buddy") De Sylva was getting along fine at Fox when Darryl Zanuck popped up in 1935 and merged Fox with his own 2Oth Century Pictures. Buddy De Sylva soon parted company with Zanuck, went over to Universal for a while, then to R. K. O. When he parted company with R. K. 0. too, Hollywood said De Sylva was washed...
Then Buddy went east and staged three fabulously successful Broadway musicomedies in quick succession: Du Barry Was a Lady, Louisiana Purchase, Panama Hattie. Last week Buddy De Sylva was back in Hollywood with a new job. As of May 1, he will be production head of Paramount-a job as big as Zanuck...
Possibly as a hedge against the Minsky tone of most of the proceedings, Librettists Herbert Fields & B. G. ("Buddy") De Sylva have introduced a bit of innocent juvenile appeal represented by Joan Carroll, aged 8, whose part was originally intended for Shirley Temple and who should please even those who insist on worshiping at that small shrine...