Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...producers of this movie obviously had their eyes on the hugely successful Linda Darnell-Paul Douglas section of "A Letter to Three Wives." But where the prototype gave the actors a chance to achieve high comedy in a highly original situation, the follow up is perfunctory, routine, and yields few laughs even to such an accomplished team...
Flipping through the blurbs and blarney of Its trade press one day last week, Hollywood stopped to goggle at a full-page ad. Blazoned as an open letter "to the top executives of the motion picture industry," the ad said...
...letter was signed by B. P. Schulberg who, at 57, had reaped the rewards of a full Hollywood producing career: money, enemies and some impressive credentials. He was the man who discovered Clara Bow, dubbed Mary Pickford "America's Sweetheart," helped to form United Artists, produced Wings, which won the first Academy Award. As Paramount's production boss from 1925 to 1932, he had drawn $9,500 a week...
During the last 15 years, while he "gambled my money away" on dice and the stock market, Schulberg has watched his jobs shrink in importance. Finally, he began haunting cinemoguls' anterooms looking for a job. Says he: "I got the cold shoulder." His open letter offered some explanation: "Some of my friends who are not top executives tell me that doors are closed because I have in my time talked back to some of the big boys...
Every senior will receive a letter from the Student Placement Office today reminding him that he may soon have to go to work. The form letters, mailed out over the weekend, are a regular feature of the Placement Office's annual drive to help graduating students get the kind of jobs they want...