Word: films
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wind. All knew only too well that any open move to bid for it would send the price kiting. Hence young Producer David O. Selznick was highly pleased with himself when three days later he was able to announce that for mere peanuts ($50,000) he had bought the film rights to the book that was becoming the best-selling best seller in a generation...
...with Richard Barthelmess, that she got a chance to develop her stripe of cinemeanness. Two years later RKO borrowed her for the role of hateful, shrewish, supremely selfish Mildred in W. Somerset Maugham's Of Human Bondage (TIME, July 9, 1934). Said Bette when she saw the film for the first time: "I didn't believe I could act so-so nastily...
Since the silent-film days the cinema has kept fairly close to earth. To figure out how men in other worlds might look was, to the vaulting cineminds who conceived pictures like A Trip to Mars, By Rocket to the Moon, Jupiter's Thunderbolt, a mild exercise in ingenuity. But how such out-planeters might talk, especially in conversation with men from Hollywood, has lately presented a weighty problem in linguistics. Flash Gordon is fortunate enough to find some English-speaking Martians, but with true comic-strip vigor, he usually manages to make actions speak louder than words...
...Westport resident is Patrick A. Powers, an enterprising Irishman, onetime backer of Walt Disney, organizer of Universal Film Co., later of Film Booking Office of America (forerunner of RKO) who sold out his Hollywood interests several years ago, purchased a 200-acre estate in Westport, where he built the Longshore Country Club. Sociable, civic-minded Powers spends his winters in a marble-floored palace at Spuyten Duyvil on the Hudson River, wears green suits and still sports an Irish accent. Last week he promised Westporters a great gift: he would build a $100,000 "marine stadium" at Westport, lease...
...preachers have often been criticized because they devise spectacular, worldly ways of getting apathetic Christians into church. British parsons now sometimes go them one better. Motion pictures are packing British churches on Sunday nights, largely because of the relatively good films produced by the Religious Film Society, backed by rich Methodist Miller Joseph Rank (TIME, Feb. 14). By last week, 200 British churches had been equipped for sound pictures, new installations were being made at the rate of one or two a day. To familiar objections against such "pill-sugaring," an executive of the Film Society, Rev. Stanley M. Edwards...