Word: film
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Because blonde Gerta Rozan's first good film part was eliminated in the cutting room, Austrian Actress Rozan confused Universal City traffic by patrolling the studio pavement in a strip-picket protest. By the third day, when she had got down to black satin brassière and panties, the producers summoned Miss Rozan to inform her that if she would cease they would try to fit her face back in the film. Hollywood verdict: best all-round publicity stunt of the season...
With Lois Wilson, oldtime screen star, appearing as witness on her behalf, old-time Screen Star May McAvoy, heroine of such silent film favorites of two decades ago as Sentimental Tommy, charged that Maurice G. Cleary, her theatrical agent husband, deserted her last year, forcing her to go on relief. Miss McAvoy got her divorce and a Los Angeles court order requiring Cleary to contribute $100 monthly to the support of their eight-year...
...Workshop stories may go on the air either "alive" or "canned," but all scripts are transcribed for permanent record. The transcriptions are done by the Harvard Film Service...
...Water-grass-story of the Navajo," which traces the history, customs, and industry of the Navajos is the first film, and "Indian Villages of Antiquity," the second film, describes the cooperative farming plan of the Pueblo Indians...
Actually, One Night in the Tropic?, was designed as a major film operetta. Jerome Kern, aided by Lyricists Dorothy Fields and Oscar Hammerstein II, wrote five not-so-melodious tunes for Allan Jones's piercing tenor. Short, jaunty, oldtime Musical Director A. Edward Sutherland conducted the actors through the story by the late Earl Derr Biggers. Top-flight Cinematographer Joseph Valentine ran the camera. Yet together, this combination of Hollywood's ablest backstage talent accomplished no more than a jumbled exaggeration of the Boy Meets Girl motif with scattered comic turns by Radio Zanies Abbott and Costello...