Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went to vast expense and trouble. Before assembling his cast, Producer David Selznick journeyed to England with Director George Cukor and Scenarist Howard Estabrook. They brought back Author Hugh Walpole, to add his famed name to Scenarist Estabrook's act briefly as the Vicar of Blunderstone in the film. Five hundred boys were tested for the part of David before little Freddie Bartholomew of Wiltshire, England was picked. The picture cost approximately $1,000,000 and took a year to make. The result of all this money and mind, time and talent is, in David Copperfield, an example...
...Puritannical and tyrannical stepmother, violently overacts her part. Fortunately the Hollywood moguls have seen fit to give O.P. Heggie the role of the sympathetic man of the family, whose mission is to comfort and console the luck-less pair. It is O.P. Heggie's acting which raises the film asinity to the level of mediocrity...
...making "It's a Gift" an entertaining cinema, but the premier genius of cinematic humor has already proven his ability to diffuse even the dullest of material with a spirit of universally appealing humor, and by dial of his admirable skill "It's a Gift" is a truly amusing film. The general make up is typical of the sort of stuff against which Fields has to contend but he produces two especially tickling scenes. The age-old struggle of the male against the female for the bathroom mirror is most laughably portrayed by Mr. Fields and there is a sequence...
...vehicle for Greta Garbo's statuesque soul-struggles "The Painted Vell" is effective, but as film drama it's rather slow about getting things done and rather naively melodramatic. The Cambridge sophisticates should get quite a bit of fun laughing at the serious sequences, of which there are one or two really priceless ones. Garbo is her usual self--some seem to like it but this corner is still convinced that the only interesting thing about her is her popularity an apparent triumph of publicity department machinations. Robert Marshal continues to be the capable English...
...present film begins, Miss Harding is discovered reading dejectly in the Housewives' Club of a London suburb, while the April rain drizzles outside. Upon finding a certain notice in the paper, she and a kindred spirit at the club develop an April hankering that is the reverse of Mr. Browning's-Oh, to be in Italy! For a few pounds they can rent a fabulous little castle on the Mediterranean. There is a thrifty counting of shillings, and at length an ecstatic leavetaking of foggy streets and captious husbands. Two noble ladies have been corralled to join them...