Disney picks tall, athletic Cinderella with universal appeal
Walt Disney artists chose a tall slender Cinderella with brown hair and blue violet eyes, a universal type not dazzling but attractive. The process involved dozens of conceptions, teed off by a live-model study, to craft a personality with grit and spunk for global audiences.
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Star Alar Ladd Draws Crowd in Los Angeles Autograph Run
In downtown Los Angeles near Paramount, Alar Ladd wins massive goodwill as fans of Mexican descent gather at night in the Southern Pacific yards. Ladd and his wife Sue Carol sign autographs for hours while Chico Day addresses excited locals in Spanish Mexican slang. The event ends around 3 a.m., leaving Ladd a hero to the crowd.
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Three Silent Era Stars Cast in Local Musical
Chester Conklin Franklin Farnum and Stuart Holmes take roles in a community stage musical The announcement highlights the trio as veteran screen figures bringing period flavor to the production
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Franklin Farnum
Stuart Holmes
Clara Bow says today's movie men have It too
Clara Bow in St Louis said modern male leads like Robert Mitchum Alan Ladd and Humphrey Bogart have It too. She teased about returning to film for a scene with a muscular hero and a playful slap but quickly clarified she is joking.
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Actress Constance Collier praises square dancing as therapy
Hollywood actress Constance Collier, formerly a London toast of the stage, extols square dancing on the Twentieth Century Fox set for Whirlpool. She calls it a joyous, neighborly activity that prevents introspection and offers healthy physical fun over ballroom dancing.
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Psychiatrists Recommend Dancing for Neurotic Patients
A commentator notes psychiatrists advise square and folk dancing as therapy for neurotic patients, citing stage and screen veteran credentials as an authority on the treatment suggestion.
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Movie Will Salute Rock Island Railway
Filming of Rock Island Trail about the building of the Rock Island railroad begins in September near McAlester and Haileyville Oklahoma. Eight flatcars with Civil War era railroad equipment from Chicago have arrived for shooting. Republic Pictures will produce the full length feature.
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Such Things Happen Even in Hollywood
Hollywood star Spring Byington finishes The Good Old Summertime and plans to refurbish her guest house. She learns on short notice that her studio sends her to Aspen for four weeks, while two New York visitors become caretakers during her absence.
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Garland Critic-Actor Calls for Verdict on Stage
Robert Garland, critic for the New York Journal American, departs the summer circuit with remarks on his own performance in The Night of January Sixteenth at Blauvelt. He notes jury onstage and jokes about verdicts while praising the heroine Joan Watson. Rose press buys for Blackouts headline a ticket scheme amid ongoing theater season shifts. Joann Morgan rises as Broadway Cinderella in Born Yesterday at Henry Miller and Diamond Lil revival at Plymouth. Kanin had seen her in Boston and later Newark before New York.
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Astaire Encourages Pidgeon for Broadway Career
Fred Astaire urged Walter Pidgeon to press on with his theater ambitions after spotting his debut performance in You Never Can Tell on Broadway.
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Fred Astaire
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In School Radio Series Opens This Week in Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids public schools begin their twelfth year of in school radio listening. The first program Davy Crockett airs Thursday at 9:15 on WMT, with a thirteen week schedule and dramatizations of folktales featuring local cast members and a junior league support.
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Robert Vernon
Frederick S. Glanville
Frank P. D’aquila
Lucille Ball Fired From First Stage Job
Lucille Ball was fired from her first theatrical job for lack of experience and then found work as a soda clerk in a Broadway drug store.
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