Word: ferber
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Glamour (Universal) from a story by Edna Ferber, is a preachment on the vanity of the flesh. While rehearsing in the chorus of a new show Linda Fayne (Constance Cummings) decides to reach star dom by plaguing the show's composer, Victor Banki (Paul Lukas), into writing a song especially for her. So charmingly does she plague that she gets Victor in stead. Marriage to Victor brings her no nearer to success on the stage, and she is ready to give up her ambition when she reads that Ellen Terry never reached her zenith until she had a baby...
...Keith's--"Wild Cargo". Last two days of Frank Buck's story of his triumphs over the most ferocious of wild animals. Edna Ferber's "Glamour" with Constance Cummings and Paul Lukas starts Saturday...
...frame for juxtapositional drama of the type that came into fashion with Grand Hotel, a fashionable dinner party is ideal. As a frame for one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's all-star casts, the play by Edna Ferber and George Kaufman which was produced in Manhattan last winter was even better. The actors in Dinner at Eight selected by MGM's new producer David Selznick, make the cast of MGM's Grand Hotel, produced by Irving Thalberg, look like a road company, make the picture-less biting but more comprehensive than the play-superb entertainment. Under Director...
After Playwright Marc Connelly (The Green Pastures) & wife were refused permission to enter Russia with a group of tourists which included Edna Ferber, Ralph Pulitzer and Sugar Heiress Dorothy Spreckels, the Soviet Foreign Office investigated, admitted a misunderstanding, ordered the Connellys be let in at once...
...styles in short stories are changing. Yesterday's vogue, "the story with the snapper at the end," says sharp-eyed Authoress Ferber, seems "strangely old-fashioned and unconvincing now." New styles call for front drive, less road clearance, a sharper-tilted wheel. These eight stories will all do 20 mi. to a gallon; two of them will go 75 at a pinch. Some of the upholstery: A day in the frantically hard-working life of a successful actress, far removed from the "glamour" her public imagines her surrounded with. Efficient Fraulein's day off from her opulent Parkavian...