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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Married. Clifford Odets, 30, proletarian playwright (Waiting for Lefty) and film scenarist (The General Died at Dawn); and Luise Rainer, 25, Viennese cinemactress (Escapade, The Great Ziegfeld); in Brentwood, Calif...
Married, Mrs. Lillian R. Coogan, 41, mother of onetime Cinemactor John Leslie ("Jackie") Coogan; and Arthur Bernstein, 51, manager of Jackie Coogan Productions, Inc. which holds the Coogan film fortune; in Las Vegas, Nev. Two years ago Father Coogan was killed in an automobile crash which Jackie survived (TIME...
...addition, she does so well in the role of the little town girl who makes good that she easily outclasses Ginger Rogers. However, James Stewart, the mellow almost inaudible tenor, is no Astaire, and if it weren't for his ingratiating boyish shyness, he would detract from the film. The clever Reginald Gardinev leads a neat touch with a fantastic impersonation of Stokowski and his baton, an act which he repeats in "The Show Is On". Supplementing Eleanor Powell's nimble feet are those of Georges and Jains, a graceful, aristocratic dance team...
Though pleasantly ridiculous, the play repeats the outworn story of the unappreciated stage aspirant who become the understudy to a temperamental musical comedy actress and finally, when the latter walks out on her produced stars in the opening night performance much to her lover's joy. But in any film of amusement the plot must be ignored. Weakening the bountiful entertainment is the grating voice of languorous Virginia Bruce, who plays the musical comedy star. Among the pieces all of which were written by Cole Porter, "I'm Nuts About You" stands...
...lands from the same outlook. Although this does not commit the mistake of Fitpatrick productions, which Mr. Fitzpatrick always concludes with a mournful "We take a reluctant leave of the fair city of So and So," it clearly bares the need for something new in this kind of film entertainment. The other type of travelogue is "Wings Over the West," an interesting revelation of how Pan-American flies the Caribbean. Winthrop...