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...story of The Sign of the Cross, included in the repertory of every stock company in England since it was first played in 1895, is obvious devotional melodrama. Nero (Charles Laughton) orders his lieutenant, Marcus Superbus (Fredric March), to clear Rome of Christians. While doing so, Marcus falls in love with a Christian girl named Mercia (Elissa Landi). This makes the vicious Empress Poppaea (Claudette Colbert) jealous. Marcus Superbus tries to persuade Mercia to become a pagan. He fails. Nero wants to forgive her for being a Christian but Poppaea, to save Marcus from what she considers a misalliance, refuses...
Best performance by an actor: Fredric March (Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde...
...Fredric March would have been vastly surprised a dozen years ago had anyone predicted that he would ever receive one of the gold statuets which symbolize the Academy's approval. At the University of Wisconsin he was football manager and a member of the track team. When he was graduated in 1920, he went to work in a Manhattan bank. David Belasco gave him a part in Debonair that autumn; he has been an actor ever since. His resemblance to John Barrymore helped him in Hollywood; his first really important picture was The Royal Family of Broadway. In Dr. Jekyll...
...after, a recount of the votes for Fredric March showed that his performance in Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde had beaten Wallace Beery's in The Champ by only one vote. Academy rule says the margin must be two or more. The dilemma was solved by ordering another gold statuet for Wallace Beery...
...Smilin' Through possesses also all the qualities which make cinema a persuasive art and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the most persuasive of cinemanufacturers. Director Sidney Franklin* treated his story with the manner appropriate for an afternoon in the attic peeking at grandmother's love letters. Leslie Howard and Fredric March act with finish and aplomb. Norma Shearer's part, immensely different from the ones she has lately played in parlor tragedies, is the one Norma Talmadge originated for the cinema in 1922. Miss Shearer performs it ably, a little less effectively in a blonde wig as Moonyeen than...