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Eleanor Boardman (1898-1991) |
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- Helen Hayes, A Farewell To Arms, 1931. For the first Ernest Hemingway novel to be filmed, Paramount desired Claudette Colbert-Fredric March. No? OK, how about Next, Gary Cooper-Nancy Carroll. Or Cooper-Boardman. Finally, MGM loaned Helen to join Coop, upon whom she had an enomous crush! Some of Boardman’s scenes wound up in Paramount’s 20th birfthday compiulkation, The House That Shadows Built. Featuring footage of everyone who ever Paramounted, from Sarah Bernhardt to the Marx Brothers.
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