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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confronted with such flagrant red herrings as Sidney Blackmer, Alan Dinehart, Reginald Owen, a skulking butler and two furtive juveniles, the sleuthing couple gaily but improbably sniff out the right scent, get their manuscript...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...released after a two-year term for an automobile accident, falls foul of the parole board. A hardened young criminal (Alan Baxter), who knows the ropes, has no difficulties whatever. It takes a series of murders, a scandalous exposé of the methods of a rich building contractor (Alan Dinehart), quick work on the part of the parolee's onetime cellmate (Grant Mitchell) to produce reforms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 6, 1936 | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...exist only in the imaginations of writers like Rupert Hughes, from whose story it was adapted. There is the behind-the-scenes politician (George Raft) whose heart is as big as his racing stable, the patrician young lady (Rosalind Russell) whom he loves, and her unpleasant husband (Alan Dinehart). Rosalind Russell, till a rookie Myrna Loy, and Raft, whose arrogance may be taken as an expression of his delight at not having to do a rumba

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 24, 1936 | 2/24/1936 | See Source »

Redheads on Parade (Fox). Sooner or later the musical cycle which started with backstage stories had to get around to a back-camera story of the making of a musical cinema. In this one, Alan Dinehart is an independent producer who faces ruin until he obtains the backing of Raymond Walburn, manufacturer of Titianola, a red dye for hair. Walburn becomes a producer of pictures partly because of his interest in Dixie Lee, who is in love with John Boles, and partly because of his grudge against Jean Harlow, the leading anti-Titianola influence (who does not appear in Redheads...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 9, 1935 | 9/9/1935 | See Source »

...Ezekiel Cobb is naïve enough for their purposes. When they nominate him, he wanders into a night club with a cigaret-counter girl (Una Merkel), attracts constituents, first by frolicking with chorus girls, then by defending a newsboy who has been mistreated by his rival candidate (Alan Dinehart...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 27, 1934 | 8/27/1934 | See Source »

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