Word: trouper
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that way last year in "Personal Appearance". And new in "Boy Meets Girl" the illegitimate stage, or at least one studio of it, is made to repose all its hopes for artistic expression in an illegitimate baby. After a trying attack of measles, this gallant little trouper called happy becomes a has-been at eight months. But one must not take Happy as a symbol for the movies in general, despite the marked parallels; nothing so subtle is meant...
...Bankhead) is alternately berated and praised by her hard-boiled and single-minded manager (Clay Clement), is tirelessly pursued by a stodgy suitor from her home town. The sympathy with which she receives his proposals of marriage is discouraged by the manager, by the acrid philosophizing of a fellow trouper (Ann Andrews) and the appearance of a more appealing admirer (Phillip Reed). Although she achieves success in Manhattan, she seems perfectly willing to give up her career to marry this charmer until he is exposed as an actress-chasing cad with a concealed wife & child. When the home-town suitor...
...jeopardy in a land which insists that its film stars be sexy but not immoral. Hollywood's most worried man was old Sam Goldwyn, in whose Dodsworth Miss Astor is currently cast as the expatriate seductress. Guarding Miss Astor from newshawks, the Goldwyn pressagents explained: "Mary is a trouper, but you never can tell. She might 'blow up' under pressure if we let people see her and then where would...
...Sure Mike") Conner, a bright young Bilbo protege who had broken away, defeated Bilbo's candidate for Governor, ousted the Bilbo faction. When "The Man" Bilbo turned up in Washington three years ago and asked Senator Harrison for a job, he was politically down & out. With an old trouper's generosity, Pat Harrison lent Bilbo money to live on, got him a $6,000 job clipping newspapers for AAA. In 1934 Bilbo saw a chance for a comeback, returned to Mississippi to try for the U. S. Senate seat held by Hubert Stephens. Loyal to his junior colleague...
...inborn talents and a clever child's natural aptitude in imitating her elders, three years of experience have added, in the case of Cinemactress Temple, the technique of a seasoned trouper. In Captain January she had to come down a 45-ft. lighthouse stairway while a camera crane moved beside her catching a line at each turn of the stairs. The difficulty was to time the lines exactly to the turns and simultaneously to a dance step with which she was punctuating her words. Shirley did not miss once...