Word: filming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Contracts for the two who are accepted by the film company are understood to run for six months with a possible option for renewal at a higher wage...
...ARTS--Art for its own sake is the theme of "Ballerina," romanticized French version of life among the "petits rats"--child dancing students of the Paris Opera House. Frankly sentimental, often overdone, and built about a plot which is so poorly constructed as to contain two separate climaxes, the film nevertheless succeeds by virtue of the sheer beauty of the dance, the genuine character of the dancing school atmosphere, and the well-chosen background music. Janine Charrat, as the child ballerina, has been carefully directed with a view to psychological complications by Jean Benoit-Levy, and as a result...
...voice. Those who cringe at the mere mention of sentimentality are not gong to enjoy "Three smart Girls Grow Up," for there are the inevitable "intimate" bedroom scenes, tear-besmirched love affairs, and deep, dark young-girl secrets. But the sentiment is seasoned with humor-as, indeed, the whole film is; Charles Winninger, a hopelessly absentminded Wall Street begwig, is constantly funny, and Deanna herself, in the course of straightening out her sisters' affaires du coeur, upsets the conventional applecart on many a delightful occasion. Add to this the music--which, this time, included "The Last Rose of Summer...
...whole has been breathed the breath of life by fast-paced direction and some excellent acting by the principals. Novelty; too, enters, for there is an interesting portrayal by Sam Jaffe of Kipling's celebrated water-boy; and Mr. Kipling himself even pops into the picture on occasion. The film is entertaining, and far better than the latest Charlie Chan affair--which pleases only the yelling school kids in the balcony...
...LOEWS STATE AND ORPHEUM--One must concede Mickey Rooney a moral triumph for toning down his elaborate facial contortions, but his tolerably effective portrayal of "Huckleberry Finn" does not save the film as a whole from being a tedious, uninspired production. What little zest remains of the hilarious Mark Twain story is submerged under the Negro Jim's long harangues flash of humor arouse the spectator's interest, as, for example, when the King and Huckleberry give a delicious parody on Romeo and Juliet. But such antics are all too infrequent, and even the melodramatic steamboat-race climax fails...