Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...like me, and they couldn't be buying stories for each of us. . . ." When his contract with Paramount expired, Grant struck out for himself, since then has averaged three and a half pictures yearly. He caught Hollywood's eye as a panderer in George Cukor's Sylvia Scarlett. Then came good comedy leads in The Awful Truth, Bringing Up Baby, Holiday. Today Grant is canny about his career, reads scripts diligently, keeps an eye on publicity, tries to alternate one serious role with every two comedy parts...
...Endicott Maxwell Kaufer Doroty Cohen, Wellesley George T. Kelton Lydia Vorillov, Radcliffe Caleb Kendall Phyllis Thompson, Belmont Robert B. Kent Jane Schultz, Palm Beach Samuel L. Kent Jean Ellen duPont, Wilmington, Del. Theodore S. Kenyon, Jr. Jean White, Wellesley Drue King, Jr. Hope Imes, Wellesley Henry P. King, Jr. Sylvia Choate, Boston Hayward S. Kirby, Jr. Happy Burke Louis R. Kroll Mary Milnor, Dalton School Stanley Lampert Charlotte Sheinkopf, Boston James P. Lannon, II Betsy Nilson, St. Catherine's William H. Latimer, Jr. Deedee Dunham Endicott Junior College Allan L. Levine Sue Rogers, Brookline Dean B. Lewis Jeanne H. Grange...
Fearful for the wartime rights of expectant mothers and expected children, famed English Feminist Estelle Sylvia Pankhurst, mother of an illegitimate "eugenic" son, urged that pregnant women receive the Army allowance regularly given to children already born (maximum weekly payment...
Morning Star (by Sylvia Regan; produced by George Kondolf) gave Yiddish Actress Molly Picon, once the gay "Mitzi of the East Side," her first English-speaking dramatic role on Broadway. It also turned her into an old woman overnight, made her a grey-haired Jewish mama in one of those sentimental family chronicles which are rigged up each season, in a different racial garb, to catch the family trade...
...Douglas Fairbanks Sr., No. 3 (former British chorus girl who was Lady Sylvia Ashley before he married her)-an amount "not to exceed...