Word: brides
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...picture was famed Extase, starring Austrian Hedy Kiesler, most popular cinema shown at the International Film Exposition in Venice year ago (TIME, Aug. 27). In ten reels containing only 300 words it tells the story of an unhappy bride's enthusiastic responses to a strange young man who meets her when she is enjoying a nude swim, seduces her in a nearby cabin. Extase, brought to the U. S. last November, was excluded under the Tariff Act by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau after Mrs. Morgenthau had joined Government officials in inspecting it at a private showing (TIME...
Wedding presents included a 17th Century brooch of diamonds and pearls once owned by the father of Frederick the Great, from King Gustaf; a modern diamond brooch from Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf, father of the bride; a sapphire pendant from George V; and five kroner in cash ($1.25) from an unknown Swedish girl. Because blue is Sweden's royal color and Princess Ingrid is passionately addicted to larkspur, a plane piled high with larkspur flew over from London to decorate the wedding church, Stockholm's 13th Century Storkyrka. Leading a concert of Danish and Swedish songs before...
...bride, still going through the first stages of marriage to a stranger, becomes despairingly aware of the irrepressible conflict between her mother and her husband, and her own divided loyalty...
...Bride in 1931. Jock Whitney's literary cronies are Donald Ogden Stewart and Robert Benchley, who spend most of their time in Hollywood. In Hollywood, Jock Whitney met RKO's production chief, Merian Caldwell Cooper, who talked enthusiastically about Technicolor as the next great revolution in the cinema industry. Color was the incentive Jock Whitney needed. He and his cousin bought 15%-about $1,000,000 worth-of Technicolor Inc., organized Pioneer to make color films for RKO release...
Approved by the Legion of Decency, The Werewolf of London is a shade sillier than The Bride of Frankenstein, more alarming for small children than Mark of the Vampire. Universal last week instructed its theatre-owner clients how to advertise the picture...