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...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 »

...fine new target with gaudy trimmings. The hero of The Great Jasper was an astrologer who was best acquainted with the stars on brandy bottles; in The MindReader Warren William was violent, spurious but nonetheless likable in the turban of a phony medium. Unlike either. Paul Bavian (Allan Dinehart) of Supernatural is a lecherous and cowardly crook who ends up where he belongs, at the end of a rope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 1, 1933 | 5/1/1933 | See Source »

...peculiarly stagey exposé. The garage is an interesting and elaborate caution to curious motorists. In addition to its ramps and airshafts, it contains a mechanic stupider than most real ones (Guinn Williams), a speakeasy with onyx bar, a suite of offices in which a racketeer (Alan Dinehart) operates with the assistance of a dumb monster (George Rosener) and a paint shop in the attic where purloined vehicles can be made unrecognizable in three and one-quarter minutes. Fast Life (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a flagrantly foolish little picture in which Sandy Norton (William Haines) wins a big speedboat race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Selznick Out | 12/26/1932 | See Source »

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