Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James Cruze of Hollywood directed The Covered Wagon, one of the great cinemas. He has directed many far less great. One of 23 children of Mormon parents, he is brawny, untutored, looks like an Indian...
...married to Cinemactress Betty Compson, who calls him "the Great Dane." He has more drive than any other director in Hollywood...
Artist Decker then displayed the portrait in a Hollywood art store window with the legend: ''James Cruze-in Prison for Debt." The Cruze suit followed. Said Artist Decker: "When a man employs an artist to paint a portrait, it is up to the artist to do his worst, as he sees best. If Cruze wanted some wishy-washy, sloppy, sentimental portrait of himself, he could have had a photograph taken or hired a two-bit painter to do it. I gave him a work of interpretative...
...Hollywood heard that the suit would be settled out of court...
...Hollywood Equity members complain that they were not consulted. In less than one month, 160 of them have signed non-Equity contracts...