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...Marie Dressier (MGM) 2) Janet Gaynor (Fox) 3) Joan Crawford (MGM) 4) Charles Farrell (Fox) 5) Greta Garbo (MGM) 6) Norma Shearer (MGM) 7) Wallace Beery (MGM) 8) Clark Gable (MGM) 9) Will Rogers (Fox) 10) Joe E. Brown (Warner...
Publishing last week first results of a questionnaire addressed to exhibitors. Motion Picture Herald revealed that the most valuable players were Marie Dressier, Janet Gaynor, Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo; Wallace Beery. Will Rogers, Charles Farrell, Clark Gable, Wheeler & Woolsey. Producers lost most of their money on program pictures?pictures of standard length (55 to 60 min.) meant to fit in on any theatre program...
...chance to enlarge upon his system to an extent which other producers hoped would prove a reductio ad absurdum. The cast of Grand Hotel is the most celebrated, the most expensive in cinema history. It would surely have included other Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer stars (Norma Shearer, Clark Gable, Marie Dressier, Robert Montgomery, Marion Davies, Buster Keaton, Jackie Cooper, John Gilbert, Ramon Novarro) if there had been a few more rooms in the Grand Hotel...
...deal with. An Irish cook is less tractable until Mrs. Crane promises her a job. When she has convinced all of her peers except two, Mrs. Crane arranges a trip to the scene of the crime which proves that she is right as well as rigid. Like Marie Dressier and Polly Moran, Edna Mae Oliver is an oldtime actress who, with the disappearance of exterior attractions, has had ample time to perfect her comedy technique. Among other members of the jury are Kitty Kelly, who uses the expression "Go milk a duck," and Ken Murray as a real estate salesman...
...George Arliss is the dean of Hollywood's leading men, as Marie Dressier is the Mother Superior of its heroines. His frugality; his apelike way of walking, with his shoulders stooped and his hands hanging about his knees, make him more of an enigma to Hollywood than Hollywood is to him. He defends it against its detractors, calls it busy, sane. His valet. Jenner, who has been with him for 25 years, brings him tea at 3:30 every day, sees that he quits work promptly at 4:30, says he has never seen George Arliss break a monocle...