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...Command Performance], which existed during the lifetime of King George V., did not arise last night. The present King and Queen have seen sufficient films and plays to appreciate fully, as they obviously did, Miss Florence Desmond's keenly-detailed and effective burlesques of Dietrich, Garbo, Dorothy Dickson-and especially good, Jessie Matthews...
...play brings a successful young actress (Gloria Dickson) under the vampirish influence of a fading harridan of the theatre (Josephine Victor). How the aging harpy enslaves the girl, breaks up her engagement, holds her captive even after death, is the rest of the sad story. Redhaired, ingratiating Theodore Newton (Dead End), appeared as the luckless suitor, tries in vain to better matters with dignified restraint. Gloria Dickson, the Pocatello, Idaho girl who stepped from the Federal Theatre into Hollywood fame (They Won't Forget), endowed the young actress with dazzling blondness and a fresh, strong prairie accent...
...Notable example: Gloria Dickson, lifted to Hollywood fame in They Won't Forget (TIME, July...
They Won't Forget (Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris); Topper (Roland Young, Gary Grant, Constance Bennett); Saratoga (Jean Harlow, Clark Gable); The Life of Emile Zola (Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut); The Spanish Earth (directed by Joris Ivens with commentary by Ernest Hemingway) ; Souls at Sea (Gary Cooper, George Raft, Frances Dee, Olympe Bradna...
...Races (Groucho, Chico & Harpo Marx); The Road Back (John King, Richard Cromwell); King Solomon's Mines (Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Anna Lee, Roland Young, Paul Robeson); Wee Willie Winkle (Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen); Knight Without Armor (Marlene Dietrich, Robert Donat) ; They Won't Forget (Claude Rains, Gloria Dickson, Edward Norris) ; Topper (Constance Bennett, Gary Grant, Roland Young...