Word: goldwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Broadway Melody of 1936 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). That capacity for taking the cinema conscientiously, which has kept Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer from making a really good musical revue since the original Broadway Melody (1929), is forgotten, with happy results, in the present version. The proceedings evidently must have cost a lot of money and some pains but the result is pleasant entertainment. The people who sing and dance are not film stars who have learned some routines to appear in a musical but troupers who have made themselves famed as singers and dancers...
...Dark Angel (Samuel Goldwyn) is a literate and tastefully arranged version of the celebrated sob-cinema in which Vilma Banky and Ronald Colman committed assault & battery on the emotions of the U. S. public in 1925. It is notable for the fine acting of its three attractive principals, a superior screen script and a climax which deserves a place on that roll of honor and profit which includes such classics as the life-preserver sequence in Cavalcade, the dance of the coffee rolls in The Gold Rush, the heroine's suicide in Anna Karenina...
When Joseph Schenck and his Twentieth Century Pictures quit United Artists to merge with Fox last June, the remaining owner-producers (Mary Pickford, Samuel Goldwyn, Charles Chaplin, Douglas Fairbanks) hastily set about compensating for their loss. First, David O. Gelznick decided to leave Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, form his own producing company to distribute pictures through United Artists. Then Mary Pickford took for a partner Jesse Lasky (who was last week vastly disgruntled by news that M-G-M had contrived to beat him in signing a contract with aging Ernestine Schumann-Heink, whom he had already announced as a star...
...Mussolini Cup for the best foreign film of the year: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Anna Karenina (TIME, Sept. 9); because, ''The excellent interpretation of Greta Garbo, joined with the efficacious and human translation into images of Tolstoy's masterpiece, makes of this film a work of undoubted artistic value...
...inventions was reached in Footlight Parade, which showed a chorus massed to represent the U. S. flag. When Dancer Fred Astaire first appeared in Hollywood, he was deemed too lacking in acting ability and sex appeal to do more than a momentary turn in Dancing Lady, for which Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer borrowed him from RKO. That bit made Astaire one of the five biggest box-office names in the industry. Teamed with Ginger Rogers?an almost equally capable comedienne who had been overlooked for years for the same reasons?he has since made an estimated...