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...Bill (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is better than most program pictures because it does not fit completely into any standard classifications. It is not a melodrama or a farce, but something between. Marie Dressier as proprietress of a boarding house on the wharfs, Wallace Beery as her star boarder and sweetheart, have some good lines. Sometimes they act competently and sometimes they burlesque with unconscious ludicrousness; particularly Miss Dressier who, made a star because of the extravagant praise given her for her work in bit-parts (TIME, July 28), has now kept on making bit-parts out of roles...
...elderly woman she has met in Paris, she is called on to divert her former husband from making a conquest of the hostess' granddaughter. In casting and direction. Let Us Be Gay is an almost perfectly realized intention; it is distinguished by some wonderful acting by Marie Dressier as the sardonic, impatient dowager. Rod La Rocque and Gilbert Emery are in it too. Best shot: Marie Dressier at her knitting...
...Marie Dressier, 59, has been on the stage and in pictures for 44 years. She was a famed comedian 25 years ago. Mack Sennett took her to Hollywood in 1914 to play in Chaplin comedies. She was a hit in Tittle's Punctured Romance, but for several years after that played in weak parts and slowly lost her reputation. Used to earning $2,500 a week, she was glad to take $150 for bit parts. Last spring her acting as a gin-soaked derelict in Anna Christie with Greta Garbo brought her international fame in a few weeks. Abroad...
...color sequences there is a trick with perfume; the spectators sniff-is it possible?-yes, they smell orange blossoms. Gus Edwards sings "Lon Chancy Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out;" Norma Shearer and John Gilbert put on the balcony scene from Romeo and Juliet; Marie Dressier sings and prances around. Sometimes slapstick turns into comedy, sometimes comedy trails off into slapstick. The Hollywood Revue is not sophisticated but it is good entertainment. Best song: 'Singing in the Rain.' Prettiest girl: Joan Crawford. Silliest shot: Jack Benny covered with icing from the cake. Best shot...
...certificate. He is a determined socialist. How his family and would-be wife combine to make him marry and drop The Torch for a furniture house-organ, is developed in somewhat strained comedy. In searching for laughs Playwright Nicholson has lost the convincing humanity which characterized The Barker. Eric Dressier, Mildred McCoy play the leads...