Word: goldwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Grand Hotel (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Weekly payroll for this film...
...filmed in Berlin's Winter Garden six years ago; once in Polly of the Circus (when he wore a blond wig. doubled for Marion Davies), once in Tarzan of the Apes (doubling for Johnny Weissmuller) and in a slow-motion short, Swing High, soon to be released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
Freaks (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Director Tod Browning, one of the few truly individual directors in the U. S., is a specialist in horror. He is fond of anything that happens underground or in the dark, especially a murder. He prefers lovers who are physically deformed. He directed the late Lon Chaney in most of Chaney's best pictures. Before that he was a spieler for a sideshow, travelled twice around the world with a carnival in which he acted in blackface. Director Browning must have enjoyed making Freaks. It is one of the most macabre pictures ever filmed...
...Listening? (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Although only the title of this picture is borrowed from Tony Wons's radio activities, Are You Listening? contains sufficient broadcasting hokum to mislead the uninitiated into believing that life in a studio is a combination of hangovers, sensational denouements and bleached blondes who arrive late for the dog biscuit hour. William Haines, a continuity writer of radio hogwash, has a private office, a secretary, an insufficient salary and a venomous wife who nags him whenever he comes home, which is seldom. For love he has turned to an artist in the studio (Madge Evans...
Tarzan, the Ape Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) begins in matter-of-fact fashion when a young English girl named Jane Parker (Maureen O'Sullivan) arrives at the cozy hut of her father, an African trader. She is a pleasant character and one not easily startled. Her most definite characteristic is a warm enthusiasm for maternity which makes her approve of 1) an African baby in a bag, 2) a hippopotababy waddling after its mother, 3) a small shaggy ape which seems to be an orphan. When she goes with her father's expedition to find the valley where the long...