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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's W. S. ("Woody") Van Dyke (White Shadows in the South Seas, Trader Horn, Eskimo) dislikes being pigeonholed as a "location-director." Yet such he was until he made The Prizefighter and the Lady last autumn. Since then he has made Manhattan Melodrama and The Thin Man, both smash hits. He rarely makes more than two "takes" of a scene; many directors make a dozen. He is a reserve captain in the Marine Corps. Most of his friends are military officers. Military maneuvres are his hobby and he maps out his pictures like a general planning...
...Anthony G. Schuck, a second-string cinema director who had their marriage annulled when she returned from the production of Trader Horn in Africa. In 1928 Edwina Booth, a lithe, lively, insistent blonde, was earning an occasional $7.50 per day as a Hollywood extra. Director W. S. Van Dyke of M-G-M wanted "a milk-white blonde with a brunette's temper, or better yet a redhead's." He recalled that Edwina Booth had "a temper like a spanked cat." She got the job and a contract for $100 per week. Options increased this...
...Trader Horn) and a script girl. Because the blonde goddess of African natives had to be tanned, ambitious Miss Booth sunbathed herself naked on the deck while the ship sailed down the blazing Red Sea to Mombasa on the African East Coast. To protect themselves from sunstroke Director Van Dyke and others of the company wore red underwear...
...Booth acted in a skimpy garment made of monkey fur. Elephant grass cut her bare feet and legs, the sun blistered her bare thighs, arms and back; African insects gouged her everywhere. The heroine rejoiced when a cloudburst destroyed the camp, two hippopotamuses trampled the debris, and Director Van Dyke ordered the company to move to the Belgian Congo...
Well directed by W. S. Van Dyke, superbly photographed by famed Chinese Cinematographer James Wong Howe, Manhattan Melodrama is first-rate cinema, chiefly important because it marks the elevation to stardom of Myrna...