Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wayne (Jessie Matthews), assistant cinema critic on a Fleet Street paper, is assigned to cover the movements of a U. S. film star (Olive Blakeney) whom Scotland Yard suspects of being an international jewel thief. Pat, determined to dog her quarry to earth's end, signs on as the actress's maid, quickly gets into difficulties which result in her hiding in a trunk. Next thing she knows she is aboard a liner which is returning the cinemactress to the U. S. Also aboard is a young detective (Barry Mackay) and a U. S. gangster (Nat Pendleton), both...
...Spanish Earth (Contemporary Historians, Inc.). Last winter Writers John Dos Passos, Archibald MacLeish and Ernest Hemingway (see p. 66) decided that one way they might intelligently serve the Spanish Leftists was by producing a film showing the Leftists' version of the origin and progress of the revolution. Finding that little of the source material available in the U. S. could adequately supply them with the dramatic and pictorial qualities they had in mind, Messrs. Dos Passos and MacLeish formed Contemporary Historians, Inc., decided to send their own experts to Spain. There Dutch Director Joris Ivens and Author Hemingway...
...Spanish democracy, has a record of high achievement. Besides Author Hemingway, who wrote and recites the infrequent but unforgettably eloquent narrative lines, there were five other unusually meritorious contributors. Director Ivens and his photographer, John Ferno, won the National Board of Review's second award for a foreign film* last year with their filming of the damming of the Zuyder Zee. The sonorous Hispanic melodies that play in and out of The Spanish Earth were arranged by two of the most imaginative modern musicians in the U. S.-Virgil Thomson (Four Saints in Three Acts, The Plow That Broke...
Between them, these collaborators tell the story of the Spanish revolution in terms of people rather than in terms of action. Not since the silent French film, The Passion of Joan of Arc, has such dramatic use been made of the human face. As face after face looks out from the screen the picture becomes a sort of portfolio of portraits of the human soul in the presence of disaster and distress. There are the earnest faces of speakers at meetings and in the village talking war, exhorting the defense. There are faces of old women moved from their homes...
...York Yankee Outfielder Joseph Paul di Maggio rehearsed an hour and a half, then made his film debut in the New York studios of Republic Pictures as a featured player in Manhattan Merry-Go-Round, a musical comedy. After 13 "takes" he finally perfected his three-line scene. Later he returned, completed a four-and-a-half-minute sequence with Henry Armetta...