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Sep 25, 2024 · Pioneering Hollywood journalist Adela Rogers St. Johns helped persuade Marion to try her luck in the movies, and Marion made her name writing for Mary Pickford (though she would win Academy Awards for scripting The Big House [1930], a prison film with a predominantly male cast, and The Champ [1931], a boxing movie).
2 days ago · Adela Rogers St. Johns later dubbed Gable and Crawford's real-life relationship as "the affair that nearly burned Hollywood down". [6]: 82 Louis B. Mayer threatened to terminate both their contracts, and for a while, they kept apart when Gable shifted his attentions to Marion Davies as he costarred with her in Polly of the Circus (1932). [27]
2 days ago · Adela Rogers St. Johns recounted her first visit: "I rang and asked the maid for coffee. With a smile, she said I would have to go up to the castle for that. I asked Marion Davies about this. She said W. R. (Hearst) did not approve of breakfast in bed."
2 days ago · The Presidential Medal of Freedom. This is a partial list of recipients of the Presidential Medal of Freedom, listed chronologically within the aspect of life in which each recipient is or was renowned.
Sep 18, 2024 · Great books. I just reread the 1960s novel TELL NO MAN by Adela Rogers St Johns. Still powerful today, about a modern-day young Chicago exec who has an epiphany. Great!
Sep 23, 2024 · Adela Rogers St. John once said John Kennedy “screwed anything that didn’t have four legs, and I’m not even sure he wouldn’t do that”. The man was on a boat with friends and floozies while his wife was giving birth in 1956, not anywhere around for her when she learned the child had been stillborn.
Sep 22, 2024 · How did she influence female journalists in pop culture, especially His Girl Friday?” Film critic Pauline Kael maintains that talkies about girl reporters were almost all based on the most highly publicized female reporter of the time, Hearst's Adela Rogers St. Johns.
