Word: belasco
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, on the eve of the marriage of Operatic Actress Helen Gahagan and Melvyn Douglas, stars of David Belasco's Tonight or Never, Producer Belasco, filled with loving-kindness after three months on a sickbed, announced: "It was a case of love at first sight. I've seen many romances in the theatre, but none so fine, so oldfashioned, so honest...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A bachelor, lonely in his old age, invites his illegitimate children of various nationalities to come and live with him. One of them-the one he feels is most like him-turns out to be not his daughter after all. Such components were all right when Belasco produced The Bachelor Father on Broadway but they offered a grave moral problem to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. That great organization rose brilliantly to the emergency, however; they changed the bachelor into a married man. The comedy has lost some of its pace, but the circumloquacious dialog has a certain...
...comedy in three acts by Laurence E. Johnson, Produced by David Belasco. Setting by Joseph Wickes. Now playing at the Tremont Theatre...
...general thing there is something about a play produced by Mr. Belasco, which makes a visit to it a pretty good gamble. But in the piece under consideration the odds are no more than even. It is a play with a decided number of good hearty laughs, is well staged, and is at least adequately cast. But none the less you come away feeling that at best it was awfully thin stuff...
This can hardly be held against it, as long as it amuses, and yet comparing it to "The Bachelor Father," another and much more amusing endeavor of Dr. Belasco's, it ends up far in the ruck. The thin matter, of which the play is cast, happens in this case to be illegitimacy of birth, but in this instance it is prospective not retrospective...