Word: claudet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Madelon Claudet (Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer) is remarkable because in it Helen Hayes appears in cinema for the first time and because it succeeds in its intention?to make audiences weep...
...drums up her trade without ever making the error of playing for the audience's sympathy. The picture is well directed by Edgar Selwyn, splendidly acted by the rest of the cast?particularly by Jean Hersholt as an old physician who, towards the end of the picture, meets Madelon Claudet running away from her son's house...
...Hayes's greatest success was Coquette. The run of that play was terminated by a celebrated act of God?the birth of Helen Hayes's daughter?over which there was an Actors Equity suit. Her husband. Playwright Charles MacArthur (see The Unholy Garden) worked up the script of Madelon Claudet (from the stage play The Lulla-by). A jolly, practical jokester, he once wrote a speech abusing drama critics, gave it to his wife to read over the radio when it was too late for her to change. Helen Hayes is two years younger than the 20th Century; the make...
Loow's state--"The Sin of Madelon Claudet." Helen emotes from youth...