Word: shearer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite stars were Clark Gable, Shirley Temple, William Powell, Wallace Beery, George Arliss and Myrna Loy, in that order. Women's favorites were Shirley Temple, Robert Taylor, Clark Gable, Norma Shearer, Jeanette MacDonald, Greta Garbo. More surprising was the survey's answer to the question about the double feature, long a thorn in the side of the industry which thinks the public likes...
Four features are or will be at the University this week. Through Wednesday "Shall We Dance" and "Once A Doctor", with Jean Muir and Donald Woods are showing; on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday, "Fifty Roads To Town", with Don Ameche and Ann Sothern, and "Romeo and Juliet", with Norma Shearer and Lesile Howard...
...film versions of Shakespear, Mr. Huston has liked them all, especially "Rome and Juliet." He hands plaudits galore to Norma Shearer for her performance. He might film "Othello", if there is a public reaction for it. This play is adaptable for the screen, and many of the wars and battles alluded to could actually be shown. It "Othello", is well received, he plans to go ahead with "King Lear", the "Tempest" or "Macbeth...
...Merlin Hall Aylesworth of Radio-Keith-Orpheum Corp. demanded higher cinema admission prices, declared: "The wasteful, injurious practice . . . of giving away one Grade A picture with one Grade B picture is like eating too much ice cream at one time." Stricken in Hollywood with bronchial pneumonia lay Cinemactress Norma Shearer, widow of famed Producer Irving Thalberg who died last month of lobar pneumonia (TIME, Sept...
...Jackson-Day-Dinner ticket, paid $1 in advance but protested he could not afford the balance, lost his WPA job two months later. ¶O'Neill C. Cook of Tionesta appeared at his WPA project wearing a Landon sunflower button, shortly lost his job. ¶Mary Caroline Shearer of Indiana was ordered to contribute $27 to the Democratic County Committee on pain of being barred from future WPA work, refused, was barred...