Word: filmed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Renato Senise, the Italian who originally thought up the idea and brought Roach to Rome. In Hollywood, Messrs. Roach and Mussolini had been more & more embarrassed as fewer & fewer people came to their parties and the "20-day" instruction period young Mussolini was to put in in the film capital was cut to seven after cinema trade papers carried full-page ads denouncing Vittorio Mussolini for having bombed Ethiopians last year and quoting him as having said "To me war is a sport-the most glorious sport in existence...
Culver City, seven mi. west of Los Angeles' midriff, has for two months clamored for the right to use the name Hollywood. Reasons: 1) Culver City boasts three major, several minor film studios;-2) cinemanufacture and Hollywood are synonymous. Not long ago Hollywood's Chamber of Commerce President O. K. Olesen, indignant, maneuvered through the Los Angeles City Council an ordinance defining Hollywood's boundaries, and Culver City, left definitely outside the fence, sullenly threatened to vote itself the name Hollywood anyhow...
Farewell Again (London Film) expertly applies the Grand Hotel idea to a British troopship. The 23rd Royal Lancers, homeward bound on H. M. S. Somersetshire after five years in India, are informed by wireless that they are to have but six hours ashore in Southampton, must then push off again for patrol duty in the Near East (''Sorry men, but if we're going to own an empire, we've got to pay for it"). Well-managed cameras bustle about sketching, vignetting, peering into lives affected poignantly, happily, comically, by this upsetting circumstance, bring each little...
...Latin uprisings, in Berlin followed the Spartacists' uprising against the Ebert Government, ran the Chicago Literary Times, a bohemian and radical sheet. He and Charles MacArthur, another Chicago newspaper bravo, wrote The Front Page in 1928 and thereby hit professional pay dirt. During a fling with MacArthur in film production, a venture that improved their backgammon game but not their bank accounts, the pair found time to write the book for Billy Rose's Jumbo. Hecht confessed once that the drama was not a suitable medium for him ("I've never been able to compact an idea...
...weekly organ, Der Stunner, Reichspropagandist Julius Streicher announced that Cinemactress Marlene Dietrich, who has declared her intention of becoming a U. S. citizen, is a traitor to Germany. He moaned: "This German-born film actress has lived so many years with the Hollywood film Jews that she has now become an American citizen." When contemplating citizenship, Cinemactress Dietrich said: "America has been good...