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...Kindly, strikingly handsome, but all things considered, an all-around flop...
...that a man can take a couple of lessons on Friday and fly his plane home on Monday." The commercial "plane that will support itself in the air, financially as well as mechanically," will be developed within two years. The private plane, he snorts, has been a "flop...
Strictly Dishonorable (Universal). Between the necessities of being naughty to please the audience and nice to please the censors, lies a great void. Into this void flop most of Hollywood's attempts to be sophisticated. Universal Pictures made a valiant try to sidestep the flopping process in this production by sidestepping sophistication. When Preston Sturges wrote the play he invented a heroine who spent a good deal of time during the story trying to be seduced, but the movies, true to their glorious traditions of U. S. womanhood, calmly purified...
...star. On his way to New York Peter is pounced upon, rushed into new clothes, given a new name ("Buddy" for democracy, "Windsor" for aristocracy), and a long, lucrative contract. A kind-hearted press-agent (Jeanne Greene) gets him through his first personal appearance, but his picture is a flop. After a great deal of to-do casting sinister reflections upon the ways of cinemagnates & their henchmen Peter Hinkle goes back to his study of oral surgery and the Paragon people find two new stars to glorify...
...Gang) company in 1926. In 1927, he stopped using the nickname "Babe," changed to Oliver for numerological reasons. In 1927, also, he met Stan Laurel. They formed an immediate partnership, now have a song about it: "Ham & Eggs, Salt & Pepper, Bread & Butter, Laurel & Hardy, United we stand-divided we flop...