Word: cooperating
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, police arrested one Lester David O'Dell for writing a series of threatening letters to the President so persuasively phrased as to get past the secretariat which usually weeds such items out of the Presidential mail bag. In court, Magistrate Irving Ben Cooper recognized Correspondent O'Dell as a crank who had written similar letters to Mayor LaGuardia two years...
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (Paramount) is capricious proof that impish, cheroot-chewing Ernst Lubitsch is as deft a director as ever. Foil for most of Director Lubitsch's fun-making is gawky, good-natured Gary Cooper, a wealthy, clean-shaven Bluebeard loose on the Riviera after seven short-order U. S. marriages. Believing that "Lovemaking is the red tape of marriage," he wants to marry in haste when he meets pertly marriageable Claudette Colbert. When she learns of the previous seven wives, she treats him to six months of honeyless honeymooning. When eventually remorseful Claudette is ready...
Airily written, amusingly scored, sprinkled with reliable supporting players, Bluebeard's Eighth Wife has more deftness than heft, loses speed in the late rounds. Best fun: Actress Colbert warding off ardent Actor Cooper's advances with a scallion breath, announcing: "I'll fight you with every vegetable at my disposal...
Behind her rigging and wigging, Princess Kukachin is blonde, wide-mouthed Norwegian Sigrid Gurie, engaged by Producer Goldwyn with elaborate secrecy. Cinemaudiences may recognize her as the girl Gary Cooper taught to kiss in one four-minute cinema lesson, a sequence to go down in cinema history with the Garbo-Gilbert pacesetter (Flesh and the Devil) and the May Irwin-John C. Rice long count...
...with the idea three years ago, then passed it along to Producer Goldwyn. First loud stunt of the Goldwyn staff was to trumpet an invitation to young Marshal Chang Hsueh-liang, kidnapper of Chiang Kaishek, to lead Kublai Khan's cohorts. When Producer Goldwyn, who had discovered Actor Cooper over a decade before (The Winning of Barbara Worth), lured him back from Paramount to play Marco, Paramount helpfully hollered bloody murder, sued unsuccessfully for $5,000,000. When the astronomical Paramount suit sputtered out, the Goldwyn staff tried one more impertinent plug. They wired Egypt's Washington minister...