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Word: naugatuck (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1940
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Tall, twittering Gilbert Adrian began to draw shortly after he was born 37 years ago, the son of a Naugatuck, Conn, milliner. His first success, a costume designed for his companion at a Paris ball, caught the eye of guest Irving Berlin, got Adrian a job dressing the Second Music Box Revue. Rudolph Valentino's wife, Natacha Rambova, took him from Broadway to Hollywood to make her husband's clothes, and Adrian has been dressing movie folk ever since. At M. G. M. he inhabits an oyster-white office, works furiously chewing gum, deep in an over stuffed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 1, 1940 | 7/1/1940 | See Source »

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