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Hollywood Park Inc
Hollywood Park, Inc. 1050 S. Prairie Ave.Inglewood, California 90301U.S.A.(310) 419-1500Fax: (310) 671-4460 Public Company Incorporated: 1981 as Hollywood Park Realty Enterprises, Inc.Employees: 1,500Sales: $143.2 million (1996)Stock Exchanges: NASDAQSICs: 7948 Racing, Including Track Operation;... Read more |
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Nathanael West
West, Nathanael, the pseudonym of Nathan Wallenstein Weinstein (1903–40), American novelist, is known principally for two macabre and tragic novels, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933), the story of a heavy-drinking agony columnist, and The Day of the Locust (1939), a satire of Hollywood life.... Read more |
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Hollywood Casino Corp
Hollywood Casino Corporation Two Galleria Tower13455 Noel Road, Suite 2200Dallas, Texas 75240U.S.A.(972) 392-7777Fax: (972) 716-3896 Public CompanyIncorporated: 1990Employees: 3,000Sales: $258.5 million (1996)Stock Exchanges: NASDAQSICs: 7999 Amusement & Recreation, Not Elsewhere... Read more |
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Hollywood Entertainment Corp
Hollywood Entertainment Corporation 9275 S.W. Peyton LaneWilsonville, Oregon 97070U.S.A.(503) 570-1600Fax: (503) 570-1680 Public CompanyIncorporated: 1988Employees: 20,000Sales: $500.5 million (1997)Stock Exchanges: NASDAQTicker Symbol: HLYWSICs: 7841 Video Tape Rental Hollywood... Read more |
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Hollywood
Hollywood 1 Community within the city of Los Angeles, S Calif., on the slopes of the Santa Monica Mts.; inc. 1903, consolidated with Los Angeles 1910. Most major film and television studios and their executive offices, once located in Hollywood, have moved to nearby areas and suburbs. Although... Read more |
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Gene Autry
Gene Autry Singer, guitarist, actor The Right Man at the Right Time Hollywood: The Phantom Empire The Singing Cowboy and His Music The Sunset of the B Western Selected discography Sources The life of Gene Autry reads like a chapter from the American Dream. Rising from classically... Read more |
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Fredericks of Hollywood Inc
Frederick's of Hollywood, Inc. 6608 Hollywood Boulevard Los Angeles, California 90028-6208 U.S.A. Telephone: (323) 466-5151 Toll Free: (800) 323-9525 Fax: (323) 962-9935 Web site: http://www.fredericks.com Private Company Incorporated: 1962 Employees: 1,600 Sales: $200 million (2002... Read more |
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Joseph Fields
Fields, Joseph [Albert] (1895–1966), playwright. Son of Lew Fields and brother of Dorothy Fields and Herbert Fields, he was born in New York and attended New York University with the intention of becoming a lawyer. While in the navy during World War I, he wrote sketches for shows and... Read more |
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Etta Moten Barnett
Etta Moten Barnett African American singer and actress Etta Moten Barnett (1901–2004) was perhaps best known for her signature performance in the title role of George Gershwin's Porgy and Bess. But her long and fascinating life was filled with other remarkable accomplishments, such as... Read more |
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Gregg Toland
Gregg Toland Hollywood cinematographer Gregg Toland (1904-1948) was the man who gave Citizen Kane its haunting, distinctive look. Toland's pioneering work in deep-focus photography brought a new level of realism to movies, giving sharp detail to all the characters in a scene. In the 1930s... Read more |
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Petrified Forest, The
...arrival of Duke Mantee ( Humphrey Bogart) and his gang, who have decided...the road, Squire signs over his life insurance policy to the girl and goads...When he repeated his role in Hollywood, Bogart's career was launched and for... |
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BOGART'S SECRET LOVE; Lauren Bacall portrays her marriage to Humphrey Bogart...
...the doyenne of Hollywood and guardian of...certainly no current Hollywood couple could dare...to the mantle of Bogart and Bacall. Last...use his private life to publicise his...perfect wife to Bogart's perfect husband, the fable of ... |
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Bogart: A Life in Hollywood.
BOGART: A LIFE IN HOLLYWOOD. By Jeffrey Meyers. Houghton...Andre Deutsch; K17.99. BOGART. By A.M. Sperber and...Bogart is he thinks he's Bogart." Yet he was also serious...suspected communists in Hollywood, ... |
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Bogart stands alone as Hollywood's greatest male star
...A Celebration of the Life and Films of Humphrey Bogart even sports an officiallooking Bogart 50th seal that strongly...possible to get too much Bogart. Now, I'm not one...s the greatest male Hollywood star of all time, bar... |
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Humphrey Bogart: A Life in Hollywood
Humphrey Bogart: A Life in Hollywood, by Jeffrey Meyers. A skilled...has now turned his talented eye on Hollywood and produced a biography of one of...greatest stars of them all-Humphrey Bogart. And what a life it was: the ... |
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Katharine Hepburn, the star with the flinty spirit and a determined glint in...
...stormed the magic kingdom of Hollywood. Spencer Tracy and Katharine...another quarter-century of life and moviemaking. Katharine...but flinty spirit, she took Hollywood the same way - by starting...two of the best: Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen and ... |
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Simply Hollywood Sid Avery - who died this month - portrayed the stars au...
...the stars were living lives not drastically dissimilar...In a shot of Humphrey Bogart and a pregnant Lauren...000 photographs of Hollywood stars. "My approach...such as Garbo, but Hollywood's hip, sporty young...the case of the older Bogart ... |
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Star power of Humphrey Bogart remains bright
...Without a Gun: The Life and Extraordinary Afterlife of Humphrey Bogart" (Knopf, $26...Generation," whose lives were shaped by the...audience for Humphrey Bogart's movies.Nevertheless...Institute ranked Bogart as Hollywood's ... |
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BOGART BIO
...that made Humphrey Bogart a star, starting with...the role that got Bogart to Hollywood in the first place. Bogart was 37, he was broke...spend the rest of my life dead. ERIC LAX: The...s a code that he lives up to. Here was ... |
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Bogie in Africa. (actor Humphrey Bogart)
...two-year-old Steve Bogart to the airport to see...Liberte on March 12. Bogart had lived for many years...world of the studio and Hollywood, where ordinary people...pretend to shoot him down. Bogart and Bacall, like other...tourists, enjoyed the night ... |
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Bogart.
BOGART: A LIFE IN HOLLYWOOD. By Jeffrey Meyers. Houghton...Andre Deutsch; K17.99. BOGART. By A.M. Sperber and...Bogart is he thinks he's Bogart." Yet he was also serious...suspected communists in Hollywood, ... |