Word: gloria
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Never (United Artists-Samuel Goldwyn). Critics who feel that the cinema should be an independent medium are discouraged because an overwhelming majority of the best talkies are reproductions of successful plays or novels. Tonight or Never is a case in point. The cast-with the exception of Alison Skipworth, Gloria Swanson and Boris Karloff, Frankenstein's monster, who herein plays a waiter-is the one which made the play a success in Manhattan when it was produced by the late David Belasco. The cinema, directed by Mervyn Leroy, differs from Mr. Belasco's production mainly in the fact...
Melvyn Douglas handles his role well and photographs so pleasantly that he is likely to remain in Hollywood for some time. So is Ferdinand Gottschalk, a first-rate character actor, who skips about Gloria Swanson chanting in a strange way when pleased by any turn of events. Tonight or Never is an easygoing, insignificant and funny cinematic escapade...
...frog in my fish pond answers readily to the name Bill Taft. Our favorite pet however, was a large flying fish christened Gloria Swanson. Her diet was difficult, but this was offset by a most affectionate disposition. Gloria visited the house frequently, flying from her pond through a patch of bamboo, between coconut trees, entering open windows and doors, frequently alighting at the canary's cage, exchanging chirps with the imprisoned singer. Gloria's death was a natural one. She "caught cold" while moulting and all efforts to rescue her from double pneumonia were vain. Bill Taft...
...Married, Constance Bennett, cinemactress, daughter of Actor Richard Bennett; and Henri, Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye, divorced husband of cinemactress Gloria Swanson; in Los Angeles...
Remarried. Gloria Swanson, 31, cinemactress; and Michael Farmer, 29, Irish sportsman; at Yuma, Ariz. They were illegally married last August at the Greenburgh, N. Y., summer home of Lawyer Dudley Field Malone, before Cinemactress Swanson's divorce from her third husband, Henri, Marquis de la Falaise et de la Coudray, became final...