Word: filming
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Sever is the one Harvard undergraduate who did not go to see the orchidaceous Greta Garbo in "Flesh and the Devil", because of the rumor that the film would be censored after the police department had had a chance to feast its eyes on the square-head's curves. Robert Sherwood said it was a good thing that the smooth Swede was married to John Gilbert before the scenes were shot. It was really rather a Puritan precaution, we hear, but it may serve to raise their divorcing average...
...Mill (Marion Davies). In a Dutch inn, a scintillant slavey woos the wrong man for her girlfriend's sake, wins the right one (Owen Moore) for her own. But the really important thing about the film is that Marion Davies wears her blonde tresses in two heavy braids and discards the velvets of romantic royalty to charm in the homespuns of domestic Holland...
...title that coos more tenderly to the box office or a picture in which an actor gives more generously of his profile and passion. The scenario is said to be related to Abbe Prevost's Manon Lescaut. At any rate, it resembles Mr. Barrymore's other romantic films in that it gives him the opportunity to wear heroic clothes, kill villains, and outwit King Louis XV. After doing these things many times, he finds himself in a tiny sailboat with Dolores Costello bound for the U. S. and freedom. A Vitaphone concert preceded the film...
...Practical tests and measurements are reported which demonstrate the feasibility of sufficient general illumination of the auditorium during the showing of the film to permit reading of program and this without detracting from definition or causing loss of quality in the picture showing on the screen...
Died. Kay Laurell, 37, onetime Ziegfeld Follies actress, divorced wife of Winfield R. Sheehan, Fox Film official; of pneumonia, in London...