Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trained down from 146 to 105 lb., is now slender, sharp-featured, vivacious. Definitely wooden as an actress, she displays a Mid-western twang when speaking, is at ease only when singing arias from Mignon and Les Huguenots, beside which the popular concoctions written for the film are apt to seem unusually hollow...
Technical Director Henry Harris of the Barcelona Ecesa & Orphia Film Studios declared on escaping to Paris: "Barcelona is in the hands of gangs of young boys and girls, armed with rifles and machine guns, whose thirst for blood seems unquenchable. They kill for the mere sake of killing. They break into homes, throw all furniture, books and pictures out of the windows, pile them up and set fire to them. They are animated by a love of destruction and death. The present reign of terror and massacre in Barcelona bears no resemblance to any ordinary conception of revolution or civil...
Joan is a jobless showgirl whose agent Nicky (Gregory Ratoff) gets national publicity for her when Farraday, a famed film actor with Shakespearean inclinations, fancies her as his ideal Juliet. Vigorously vacationing, but forbidden alcohol, Farraday is kept supplied by Nicky with bay rum ("South American brandy"), which he absorbs out of a hot-water bottle, through a straw. Stimulated, Romeo is madly in love with Juliet. Sober, he has no use for her. Kidnapped by his manager to keep him out of trouble, Romeo is chased across the U. S. by Juliet and Nicky, finally corralled for a radio...
...salaries of $10.000 and over for individual names for single performances may be paid," and that "over a 39-week season . . the lowest requirement for Holly-wood shows alone will be in excess of 1,000 names." Only croaking voices in Hollywood's radio boom were those of film exhibitors, who claimed that on nights when cinema stars were broadcasting, their theatres were sparsely attended. In the Midwest, in Southern California, in Arizona, Colorado, New York and New England, the embattled members of the Motion Picture Theatre Owners of America protested bitterly to studios for permitting stars...
Professor Francis W. Davis of the university's photography department removed the plug, brought a cinecamera up close to the hole, took pictures of what was going on in the steer's stomach. The film clearly showed that digestion in a cow's stomach is continuous. Semiliquid food surged through in periodic waves like surf...