Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...entertainment trust supplying all its own celluloid features from the merged studios of First National, Pathe and Director DeMille, with the Producer's Distributing Corp. to determine when and where who shall laugh or weep at what. Scenting the arrival of mammoth theatres, the Fox Film Corp. also has plans afoot-30 first-run theatres, to cost five to twelve millions each and seat four or five thousand people each, with stores and office buildings adjoining, in major U. S. cities...
...Million Bid (Dolores Costello, Warner Oland). The title indicates how much Millionaire Geoffrey Marsh (Warner Oland) paid Mrs. Gordon (Betty Blythe) for arranging his marriage to her glossy daughter, Dorothy (Dolores Costello). The film indicates how Villain Marsh gives over to Hero Brent (Malcolm McGregor) after a storm...
Edmund Kean, Prince Among Lovers (Ivan Mosjoukine). Edmund Kean, famed English actor, about whom Dumas wrote a play which is the structure of this film, is depicted wooing the ladies, avoiding the creditors, insulting the Prince of Wales, acting Hamlet and Romeo so all the world wonders. Pictures of old Drury Lane Theatre lend a touch of authentic local color. Actor Mosjoukine, a Russian, under direction of Albert St. Louis, a Frenchman, gives an intelligently humorous interpretation of the English hero...
...movies anything can happen. Heroes can be heroic with little or no effort: villains can lead lives unblemished by any redeeming virtues: heroines can get away with murder in fact they often do. In the movies anything can happen so Cecil B. de Mille decided to film the Bible. There were groans at the announcement that the man who wears the nattyist sport shirts in Hollywood and who has the most devoted elique of yes-men ever gathered, and that in a city where yes-men are as thick as section-men in Cambridge, intended to make a cinema version...
...picture has come to Boston. It arrives heralded by laudatory--nay, panegyrical--criticisms from New York. There appears to be a distinct impression that Mr. de Mille has generally improved the original. He has added a great many details to enhance the glory of his film. He has given it what one would expect from him--lavishness. The result is a thing of beauty and a joy forever, according to the blushing advertisements...