Word: dodd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Avenue, Lady meets wealthy young Garry Madison (Joel McCrea), who falls for her and pursues her everywhere, even after she goes to jail for the crooked dealings of her syndicate. Finally she marries him, only to find he has been mixed up in an affair with Shella Aiken (Claire Dodd). Meanwhile Lady Lee again becomes entangled with her former employer in the syndicate. Mutual jealousy arises; and after an incidental trial for murder and a highly dramatic card game between Lady and Shella, Lady divorces Madison because it is the only way she can save him from a false murder...
MERCHANTS OF DEATH-H. C. Engelbrecht & F. C. Hanighen-Dodd, Mead...
...Authors. Helmuth Carl Engelbrecht, Columbia Ph. D., 39, pacifist, associate editor of The World Tomorrow, met Frank Cleary Hanighen, Harvardman, 35, then editorial factotum with Publisher Dodd, Mead, last autumn, discovered a mutual interest in munitions makers, decided to collaborate. Each had already written one book: Engelbrecht, a study of Johann Gottlieb Fichte; Hanighen, a biography of Santa Anna. Roving Newshawk George Seldes, brother to Litterateur Gilbert Seldes, has taken the lid off many a pot of trouble, stirred it with journalistic zeal. Onetime reporter on the Chicago Tribune, he has dabbled in Art, is now a freelance, has written...
...tragic Nymph whose constancy is the most poignant picture of adolescent girlhood since Maedchen in Uniform, British Cinemactress Victoria Hopper gives a tender, sensitive, haunting performance. Dodd is Brian Aherne, the British actor who played Robert Browning to Katharine Cornell's Elizabeth Barrett on the stage. Undistinguished opposite Marlene Dietrich in The Song of Songs, he exhibits in this film vast improvement...
...rest of Gambling Lady shows what happens when an old friend of Garry Madison tries to take him away from his wife. She, Sheila Aiken (Claire Dodd), snubs Lady Lee. Lady Lee renews her acquaintance with the bookmaker. Garry Madison grows jealous. When the bookmaker is found murdered in a gutter, Garry Madison is held for murder. Sheila Aiken, who could have given Garry an alibi by admitting that he was at her house, refuses to do so unless Lady Lee divorces him. This horrid snarl is untangled as simply as it was arranged, by a shot of Madison...