Word: caesar
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Anna and the King of Siam (20th Century-Fox) and Caesar and Cleopatra (United Artists...
Westbrook Pegler found a friend. The name was Petrillo-James Caesar Petrillo, boss of U.S. musicians. Last week Hearst readers rubbed their eyes as Peg, the usually caustic carp of organized labor, was caught cheering a strike...
With or without quotes, Caesar Petrillo was sure that no one else would tell him off, until he got what he wanted...
Until a year ago, Horace Murray Heidt was known chiefly as an amiable, nice-looking bandleader whose Pot o'Gold had started the rash of radio giveaway programs. Then he tangled with Jules Caesar Stein's Music Corp. of America, which controls a glittering array of movie and radio talent as tightly as James Caesar Petrillo controls his musicians. As agent for Heidt, Jules Stein was not content to collect only 10% of Heidt's musical earnings; he wanted a cut of all Heidt's earnings. Heidt refused and was forced to quit the music business...
...Caesar and Cleopatra. Shaw's wit, elegantly tossed around by Vivien Leigh and Claude Rains, amid several million dollars' worth of Egypt (TIME...