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The film follows three men and their experiences during major events in the 1920s, such as Prohibition era violence and the 1929 stock market crash. The picture was based on "The World Moves On", a short story by Mark Hellinger, a columnist who had been hired by Jack L. Warner to write screenplays. [1]
My Name Is Bill W. is a 1989 ABC Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television drama film directed by Daniel Petrie, starring James Woods, JoBeth Williams and James Garner. William G. Borchert, who wrote the film script for television, based it on the true story of William Griffith Wilson and Robert Holbrook Smith (the men respectively called "Bill W." and "Dr. Bob"), the co-founders of Alcoholics ...
Crowd gathering on Wall Street after the 1929 crash. The Wall Street crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, was a major stock market crash in the United States which began in late October 1929 with a sharp decline in prices on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and ended in mid-November.
On this day in stock market history... "Prices of Stocks Crash in Heavy Liquidation; Total Drop of Billions" read the New York Times headline following a 6.3% drop in the Dow Jones Industrial ...
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Meanwhile, Mary and Ted embark on their own matrimonial journey. Despite his philanthropic gestures and public accolades, Joe's marriage to Elvina is marred by acrimony, exacerbated by financial mismanagement culminating in ruin following the stock market crash of 1929.
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When Mame is bankrupted by the 1929 stock market crash, she tries acting with Vera but it becomes a debacle. She then takes a series of jobs which end disastrously. During one job as a Macy's sales girl, she meets Southern oil baron Beauregard Jackson Pickett Burnside. Both are smitten, and he invites Mame to his estate.