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Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.
George Jean Nathan
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George Jean Nathan
Age: 76 †
Born: 1882
Born: February 14
Died: 1958
Died: April 8
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