Word: fazendas
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...dancing by Keeler and Dixon. Nobody in the cast has a reputation that demands dignified behavior, so even the writers seem to be having a marvelous time. It is the type of screen play which opens with the male leads doing a number without trousers and in which Comics Fazenda and O'Connell make their last exit walking absentmindedly into a lion truck...
...Adverse), poetic drama (A Midsummer Night's Dream). Less publicized than any other Hollywood executive. Producer Wallis lives on a ranch in the San Fernando Valley, drives a Cadillac to work, plays a little golf on Sunday. He has been known to turn down his wife, Comedian Louise Fazenda. for pictures he did not think she suited. Spasmodic outbreaks of puckish humor shatter his calm executive mask. He has disrupted story conferences with imitations of Rudy Vallee and Joe E. Brown, can hold his own at banquets with professional gagsters. Tall, affable, dimpled, his personal charm is notable...
...pickle. It is all very amusing, with good dialogue and a decent enough rehash of the old Idle Rich-Idle Nobility plot sequence to command interest. Warren Hymer is good as an American gangster who steals back a letter of the Duchess's from social climber Louise Fazenda...
...Aztec beauty of Dolores Del Rio in an inadequate story about an indiscreet duchess who suspects the man she loves of selling a billet-doux which has really been stolen from him. A sorry little romantic comedy in which Warren William, Colin Clive, Warren Hymer, Herbert Mundin and Louise Fazenda are also miscast, it is not improved by badinage like the following, between Mundin and Fazenda: "Having a nice time, Ducky?" "Don't call me Ducky!'' "All right, Ducky...
...modern times." When he laughed at a gag, audiences were sure to howl over it. The roster of his employes reads like a Hollywood Hall of Fame: Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Gloria Swanson, "Fatty" Arbuckle, W. C. Fields, Ben Turpin, Harold Lloyd, Weber & Fields, Lew Cody, Louise Fazenda, Bebe Daniels, Buster Keaton, Hal Roach, many another. It was Mack Sennett who imported Charlie Chaplin, overcame his disastrous first appearance by changing his make-up and costume. With a boilermaker's education, habits and vocabulary. Sennett distrusted such academic impedimenta as written scripts, insisted on his authors telling him their...