Word: cinemoguls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vittorio Mussolini, cinemogul son of Italy's dictator, voiced his fears that the decision of U. S. distributors to withhold their pictures from Italy would keep Italians from the movies. Then he added for his father's sake: "Personally and politically I am content that American films produced in that Hebrew Communist centre which is Hollywood, are not to enter Italy...
...theatre has been as professor of drama at Stephens College, Columbia. Mo. Recently, 65-year-old Maude Adams went to Culver City, Calif., took a screen test. Last week the result was announced: Miss Adams will star in a picture David Selznick plans to produce next fall. Said proud Cinemogul Selznick: "It will be a privilege to introduce her for the first time to the millions of the new generation...
...suitable medium for him ("I've never been able to compact an idea into three acts"). Last July he referred to Hollywood fame as "a load of clams" at which "a dreaming of his dithyrambs, our gallant Thespis thumbs his nose," few days later signed to write for Cinemogul Samuel Goldwyn at $260,000 annually, Hollywood's highest writing stipend. Soon thereafter he went on leave to try compacting two more ideas into three acts each. In the tortured and tortuous mental life of his hero Sterns in To Quito and Back, friends of Playwright Hecht thought they...