Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peaches-&-cream Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll asked Paramount a favor: a change of title for her new film (Are Husbands Necessary?). Reason: she is getting a divorce from her husband, Mayfairite Captain Philip Astley...
Born. To Robin ("Bazooka Bob") Burns, homely, hayseed film clown, and Harriet Foster Burns, his second wife; their second (his third) child, an 8½-lb. boy. Name: Robin Burns Jr. Christening gift: a baby bazooka...
...Theatre in Springfield. Two trainloads of guest critics, Hollywood columnists and cinema stars attended, Springfield fat-purses paid $3.30 for orchestra seats, the rest paid the usual 40?. All heard Negro Contralto Marian Anderson, hired by Producer Zanuck for $6,000, sing America. Only complaint Springfield had against the film was that Abe Lincoln arrived in Springfield not on muleback, but on horseback...
...seeing if there were no one else but a twelve year old brat named Jamie Chariat, one of the few digestable, juveniles on the screen today. There is a great deal more to "Ballerina," however, which makes it doubly worth seeing- some excellent directing which sugar-coats a documentary film on the French Ballet, plenty of good music, some of the best dancing of L'Opera Francais,- all for a couple of bits...
Stolen Life (Orion Productions-Paramount release). Elisabeth Bergner is a tiny, talented Viennese Jewess of 38, of whom German critics were once proud. For five years she has been making movies in English without strongly impressing U. S. audiences. Her English film debut in Catherine the Great was unfortunately shadowed in the U. S. by Marlene Dietrich's ballyhooed The Scarlet Empress, and her most successful picture, Escape Me Never (in which she also played her only Broadway role), was too easy for her to prove much. In Stolen Life, Actress Bergner gets. and takes, her first real chance...