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...actors in Dinner at Eight selected by MGM's new producer David Selznick, make the cast of MGM's Grand Hotel, produced by Irving Thalberg, look like a road company, make the picture-less biting but more comprehensive than the play-superb entertainment. Under Director George Cukor, John Barrymore (Larry Renault), Lionel Barrymore (Oliver Jordan), Marie Dressier (Carlotta Vance), Jean Harlow (Kitty Packard), Wallace Beery (Dan Packard), Lee Tracy (Renault's agent), Billie Burke (Millicent Jordan), Edmund Lowe (Dr. Talbot) and Karen Morley (Mrs. Talbot), supported by such $1,000-a-week celebrities as Phillips Holmes, Jean...
...mannerisms and her loud voice, possibly a shade more metallic than she intends it to be, become her part. Violet Kemble-Cooper and Gilbert Roland (Luis Antonio Damaso De Alonso, son of a Spanish bullfighter), are the other most noticeable members of an expert cast, expertly directed by George Cukor...
...only mishap in connection with Rockabye. A version of it made last summer with Phillips Holmes in Joel McCrea's role was so unsuccessful that RKO did the whole thing over again, with Jane Murfin & Kubec Glasmon to rewrite Horace Jackson's script and George Cukor directing instead of George Fitzmaurice. It emerges finally as a first-grade program picture, lachrymose but reasonable, brightened by Jobyna Howland's expert characterization of Judy's tippling mother. Instructive shot : Jobyna Howland struggling vaguely to stand up while drunk...
...yard free style swim--Won by B. S. Wood '33; second, Cukor (D); third, Smith (D). Time...
...many of the favorite intonations of gaunt Sister Ethel. The playing of these two is better than the playing of the original principals in the same parts, and since the minor parts also are almost perfectly cast and the whole piece is smartly directed by Cyril Gardner and George Cukor, The Royal Family of Broadway takes rank as one of the year's best pictures. Technically its story is an exposition of the theme that the fascination of their job holds show people on the stage even when they want to quit. Actually it is a glittering picture...