Word: dressier
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...star system had made M-G-M the most powerful voice in Hollywood. The studio splurged on giving its films a plushy elegance and a high gloss. If some happened to be mediocre entertainment, they were well insured at the box office with such names as Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Greta Garbo, Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford and Clark Gable. During the '30's, while older film empires tottered, M-G-M saw to it that its parent, Loew's Inc., never skipped a dividend. For his pains, L.B. got 10% of the studio profits-a deal that...
...ment; in Beverly Hills, Calif. Famed for his bluff, tough-guy-with-a-heart-of-gold roles (though he started in films as a female impersonator), Beery was a box-office favorite for years in such money-making pictures as Tugboat Annie and Min and Bill (with Marie Dressier), The Big House, Grand Hotel, Viva Villa!, won an Academy award in 1931 for his role as the good-natured pug-ugly in The Champ...
...Pennsylvania Avenue side of the White House, the big round pansy bed was in vivid bloom, and the oriental magnolia trees were suddenly heavy with purple-edged white blossoms. The wide, deep lawn was a bright green. To the passer-by the Executive Mansion seemed whiter, dressier, gayer than at any time since five springs...
...boatload of trippers who were circling Vermont's Neshobe Island, summer hideaway of the late Alexander Woollcott, spied, under a vast straw hat, a vast bulk swathed in a dressing gown. "Who on earth is that?" screamed one of the ladies. "Marie Dressier," said her benchmate-thereby adding another quip to the many already provoked by Mr. Woollcott's complex personality...
Many Marriages. In real life Father Dodd has performed some real movie marriages: Jack Pickford and Marilyn Miller, William S. Hart and Winifred Westover, William Lasky and Margaret Lowe. He has also officiated at movie stars' funerals: Douglas Fairbanks, Marie Dressier, May Robson, John Gilbert, Owen Moore...