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Goldie Gets Along (RKO-Radio) tells the familiar tale of the girl who tries to get to Hollywood by means of a beauty contest. In this case the girl is flaxen-haired Lili Damita and she enters more than one beauty contest. She enters a series of them promoted by one Muldoon (Sam Hardy) in various cities, always under a different name and always subsequent to having won over the local judges by her undeniable charm. It is then unscrupulous Muldoon's cue to offer her as the prize $1,000 or a non-existent ticket to Hollywood. Until...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jun. 12, 1933 | 6/12/1933 | See Source »

George White's Music Hall Varieties eschews the lavish surroundings with which Producer White used to set his Scandals, offers little new material but three bags full of entertainment in the persons of Lili Damita, Harry Richman, Bert Lahr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

Singer Richman has never had such an antiphonal background for his song "I Love A Parade." Miss Damita and her torrent of red hair appears even more charming than she was in Sons o' Guns. But black-banged Eleanor Powell, possibly the best lady tap-dancer in the business, gives her a race for being the most attractive female in the cast. Funnyman Lahr's noisy gullet has seldom been put to wider use.. He is successively a slightly bewildered master of a trained dog act ("to train dogs takes a lot of time, patience-and dogs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 5, 1932 | 12/5/1932 | See Source »

...succession of embarrassing situations, is this time embarrassed when, discovered with the lady who lost her dress by her husband, a javelin-thrower. A friend (Charles Ruggles) tries to help Young out by saying that he is married. Young is therefore forced to dig up a girl (Lily Damita) to pose as his wife. Both couples and the friend set off for Venice where, as anticipated, Young and Lily Damita are last seen drifting inseparably in a gondola. Even better than the idea of proving that Lubitsch is not inimitable was the idea of teaming Ruggles and Young. A cloudy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 25, 1932 | 4/25/1932 | See Source »

This picture concerns an elderly plutocrat (Heggie); his attractive second wife (Damita); and his son, an amorous prodigal (Lester Vail) who returns from abroad to become sexually interested in his stepmother. Finally, the scion goes away by himself and Damita embraces Heggie, who leers in a manner reminiscent of Daddy Browning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 2, 1931 | 11/2/1931 | See Source »

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