Word: cinemas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...recent Recession-prompted hunt for old stories available for revival, The Shopworn Angel illustrates one consequence: in the effort to remain consistent, the Hays organization has failed to censor material which it passed in 1929, although the characters involved scarcely meet the moral requirements of 1938's purified cinema sex life. Best sequence: Pettigrew calling on Daisy at the stage door to prove to his cynical messmates that he really knows...
Lord Jeff (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Freddie Bartholomew, who was temporarily out of the courts last week, has his difficulties in real life, but they are not to be compared with the miseries of his childhood in the cinema. He experienced beatings and neglect in David Copperfield, seasickness in Captains Courageous, a black eye in Little Lord Fauntleroy and kidnapping in Kidnapped. To this imposing list, Lord Jeff adds nothing more grueling than a sojourn in a foundling's home, which Cinemactor Bartholomew endures with his accustomed fortitude. The result is scarcely scintillating or surprising, but provides acceptable entertainment...
...social difficulties, with a perplexing problem and an extensive wardrobe. The problem is whether to marry the man she loves (Herbert Marshall), or the guardian (Ian Hunter) of her son, produced before she married anyone at all. The wardrobe is the inevitable equipment, in the cinema, of all young women who work in dress shops...
There has never been much doubt about the cinema's attitude toward mother love. Always Goodbye sheds no new light on the subject, but sound motivation, civilized dialogue, several noteworthy minor performances and Producer Darryl Zanuck's customary flair combine to lift the film well above the average of sentimental social drama. Best bit parts: the stereotyped roles of an excitable barber and a mercenary Paris taxi driver, brought to life respectively by Eddy Conrad and George Davis...
...Adventure, sequel to Arctic Adventure, covers the period from 1924, when Freuchen went home to Denmark, till 1932, when he went to Alaska with a Hollywood cinema crew to film his novel Eskimo. Domesticated in Denmark, Freuchen had a hard time curbing his grizzly-bear strength. (Hugged impulsively by Freuchen, the wife of a German cinema director slumped to the floor unconscious, was taken to the hospital with two broken ribs.) In Denmark Author Freuchen went to work to make money with as much frank delight as if he were harpooning a fine catch of seals. Marrying a beautiful margarine...