Word: goldwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Divorcee (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Whether the success of Ex-Wife, the novel from which this picture is adapted, was due to its frankness on sex, or to a certain distinct and half-naive pathos in its sophisticated affectations, will make little difference to people who see The Divorcee. The film accurately reproduces all the qualities of the book, including its disorder and its occasional approach to burlesque, but Norma Shearer's beauty makes it worth watching in spite of mediocre dialog. It concerns a young couple whose happiness was disrupted because they had a habit of confessing their in fidelities...
Redemption (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is an ambitious version of Tolstoy's play about a man who redeemed himself spiritually by sacrificing everything, even life, to his inability to make decisions. Its intention is less to popularize Tolstoy than to strengthen the prestige of Actor John Gilbert, whose first talking picture, His Glorious Night, was a failure. Gilbert declaims Fedya in a resonant, hollow voice, giving in his best scenes a lively imitation of John Barrymore and in his worst a caricature of himself in those pictures in which he made his reputation as the Screen's Greatest Lover...
Free and Easy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Producers used to be opposed to stories using the moving-picture business as a background, believing, probably quite correctly, that such stories in attempting to exploit the accidental glamour which is one of the most important assets of the business, satisfied public curiosity instead of stimulating it. This time the idea of having the camera follow Buster Keaton around the Culver City lot, where famed directors and entertainers are at work, is more successful than usual. It is a Merton-of-the-Movies story, with the comedian talking in a mellow voice that takes...
...process worked out by Inventor Theodore Nakken, president of Nakken Corp., discards the use of a slit device for limiting the area of photographic sound on a film. Claiming sole rights to this method, and also to the sound-on-film device which employs the slit (Fox Movietone, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, RKO, Paramount), Nakken Corp. has requested an adjudication of patents from the U. S. Patent Office. Last week Warner Brothers-following their policy of pioneering with picture patents-bought 50% of Nakken Corp. stock thus acquiring the use, free from royalty, of all Nakken Patents. If the courts grant...
Montana Moon (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Equipped with dull and naively vulgar dialog Montana Moon is a retake, admirably photographed, of the sort of picture that was known as a "superfeaturerl in the days when all pictures were westerns and when anything was a superfeature that contained more than a straight western story. The novelty is the introduction into ranch life of Joan Crawford, a girl addicted to the incautious pleasures and frail moral standards of the East. She marries a cowboy, "repents, is on her way back to New York when her train is held up by cowpunchers masquerading...