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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Lovers Courageous (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), although it was written as a cinema, not as a stage play, by famed Playwright Frederick Lonsdale, has most of the qualities which are noticeable in adaptations of stage comedies. Its unusual charm springs partly from Lonsdale's gracious dialog and partly from the fact that the cast is about the best that Hollywood could assemble for this type of production. Reginald Owen is a sporting Earl, absurdly preoccupied with the nonsensical problems of barnyard and hunting field. Frederick Kerr is a superannuated British admiral, grunting pungent insults at the members of his family...
...United Artists-Samuel Goldwyn) was adapted by Sidney Howard from Zoe Akins' play. The Greeks Had a Word for It. While the original title might possibly have lead cinemaddicts to suppose that the Greeks had a word for Clara Bow, even more probably it would have caused them to make wrong conjectures in classical obscenity. The plural pronoun can therefore be construed as an especially devious example of the skill with which the cinema defends its patrons from their own prurience. In his other improvements on the Akins play, Producer Goldwyn was guided less by a sense of decency...
Emma (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This story, of an aging servant who marries her employer, is more lachrymose than the others in which Marie Dressier has played since her rediscovery two years ago. A chronicle of defeated loyalty, it might have been done with less sentimental relish for the misfortunes of the principal character, but it is still an interesting, sometimes powerful picture which deserves the monetary rewards which it will doubtless achieve. Miss Dressler's troubles start when she marries the inventor whose children she has helped to rear. They resent the marriage; when the inventor dies, leaving...
Mata Hari (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). One of the legends about Mata Hari, a Parisian cabaret dancer who was executed for espionage during the War, says that she was unable to break herself of the habit of taking off her clothes at crucial moments and was therefore naked when she faced a French firing squad. This episode is omitted from the Greta Garbo version of the affair, which ends as Miss Garbo, majestic in black, is walking down a long corridor between two lines of soldiers. Her lover (Ramon Novarro) is a blind aviator who has said good...
...Lately she has become more firmly identified than ever with roles like the ones which Mary Pickford used to play, the ingenuous heroine of sentimental comedy-drama. Privately, Miss Gaynor likes to read In Tune with the Infinite by Ralph Waldo Trine, has a freckled nose. Hell Divers (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a successful merger of two well known types of cinema entertainment: aeronautical spectacle (like Hell's Angels, Dirigible) and man-to-man comedy (like What Price Glory, The Big Parade). It is also a loud advertisement for the U. S. Navy. One of the shortcomings of Hell Divers...