Word: rin
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...problem of casting Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita provoked more of a stir in Hollywood than there would have been over an open call for dogs after the death of Rin Tin Tin. The late Errol Flynn once offered the services of his teen-age mistress, Beverly Aadland, along with his own for the part of Humbert Humbert, Lolita's tragicomic, middle-aged lover. Director Stanley Kubrick was swamped with letters from U.S. mothers who thought their daughters just right for the part, surveyed 800 budding teen-agers before finally announcing the winner last week. Kubrick's choice...
Died. Lee Duncan, 67, World War I A.E.F. sergeant, who found a German shepherd dog in a trench in France, brought the animal home, trained him, got him in silent pictures in 1922, and with Rin Tin Tin and four subsequent generations earned over $5,000,000 from cinema and TV; of a heart attack; in Riverside, Calif...
...supporters, merely represents a part of the networks' long lobbying against pay TV. Pay proponents have complained to the FCC that the networks have editorialized against them on the air, formulated a phony "grass roots" campaign to impress Congressmen, taunted kids with the prediction that Rin Tin Tin would disappear if pay TV were authorized...