Word: goldwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Lady to Love (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Sidney Howard's They Knew What They Wanted-the play of the waitress from San Francisco who went to the country to marry a man she had never seen, who had proposed to her 'by mail- was made into a silent picture in 1928, with Pola Negri. It was called then The Secret Hour. A Lady to Love is less sophisticated than The Secret Hour but it is splendidly acted and well cast. Vilma Banky is the waitress, Edward G. Robinson the man she marries, Robert Ames the handsome farm hand whose...
There, too, went, the Coolidges, for there are the studios of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer whose Louis Mayer is the most potent of resident California cinemen. And there was snapped a memorable picture?the most reserved and tightly conventional of U. S. presidents shaking hands with and faintly bowing to Marion Davies, beautiful, versatile and spectacular Hearst star...
Anna Christie (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The combination of Greta Garbo's acting with one of Eugene O'Neill's best plays is not entirely satisfactory, but blame for the lost opportunity does not fall on either Garbo or O'Neill. In spite of a certain proportion of bunkum in its composition, Antia Christie is good stuff, vivid and well-constructed, with real people in it, and Garbo, as the Swedish girl who blames her luckless past on her father's neglect, is perfectly cast. One reason why this talkie is inferior to the wonderful silent picture made from the play...
...Bishop Murder Case (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cock Robin was the first to go. An arrow finished him. Then little Johnny Sprigg was shot in the top of his wig and Humpty Dumpty tumbled off a wall. It was Philo Vance, the amateur detective of the S. S. Van Dine mystery stories, who found the solution of the Mother Goose pattern in the series of horrible murders involving first Mr. Cochrane Robin in an archery butt, then a gentleman named Sperling, which is sparrow in German, then Mr. Sprigg, and finally a hunchback who resembled Humpty principally in the manner...
When the oarsmen had finished their brief act, Coach Whiteside and Captain Dickey, surrounded by blazing electric lights, faced the battery of cameras from the Paramount, Fox, International, Pathe, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Kinograms and Universal companies. The sound pictures were taken by Fox and Pathe cameramen but the splash of the sweeps was not caught by the other recorders...