Hollywood: Joe Unchained

Behind every successful man, as any Hollywood script writer knows, there must be a little woman. Behind Joseph Levine there is Mrs. Levine. If it were not for her, he might have stayed in the restaurant business in Boston, but Rosalie, a onetime vocalist with Rudy Vallee's band, did not like restaurants, so Joe bought up the rights to seven Hollywood westerns and became a movie distributor. Nowadays Rosalie is just as important: when Levine needs a gadget to promote one of his pictures—4,000 small rubber bombs to advertise Hercules, or 5,000...

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