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...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will shortly release Captains Courageous. Scheduled by RKO is Gunga Din. To make Elephant Boy, Director Flaherty, financed by Alexander Korda's London Films, accompanied by Producer Korda's brother Zoltan, spent two years in the province of Mysore. The Zanuck who, the day Ameche got to Hollywood, cast him in a tedious epic called Sins...
...time (Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer). Loudest, most lavish and most lushly sentimental operetta of the season, this pic ture opens with a sequence in which a tottering old lady settles down on a garden bench to tell a young girl the story of her life. The life story starts at the court of Napoleon III where the old lady is lovely young Marcia Mornay (Jeanette MacDonald), enjoying the first fruits of success as an opera singer. After rendering two songs at a court soiree, Marcia goes home with her manager, Nazaroff, agrees to marry him as a reward for making...
...Fear or sorrow or both oppressed every home, replacing for the time the carefree spirit usually found on the Emerald Isle. The "Informer" pointed up sharply the savagery of the period, and left undone the story of the personal tragedies behind the killings. So splendid and beautiful is Samuel Goldwyn's "Beloved Enemy" that no other picture of the romance in the civil war is likely to be filmed for some time to come...
...Good Earth (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When Pearl Buck's novel The Good Earth appeared in 1931, it was at once acclaimed as the superlative word-picture of China. When Hollywood started to produce The Good Earth in 1933, it set out to make its picture equally superlative. Twenty writers, including Tess Slesinger, Marc Connelly, Talbot Jennings and Claudine West tried their band at adapting the stage version written by Owen and Donald Davis. Director George Hill went to China, returned with a boatload of authentic properties, presently committed suicide. Victor Fleming took the helm, quit with malaria. Sidney Franklin...
...People (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Lawyer Jack Moreno (Joseph Calleia) finds, soon after hanging out his shingle, that a successful criminal practice is impossible for him without the aid of the town's boss, Grady (Thomas Mitchell). After a succession of legal shellackings he talks business with Grady. But Moreno soon gets too big for Grady's taste and when the time comes to pick a new District Attorney, Moreno is cashiered. His fighting failure brings him to the attention of the Governor, who appoints him special investigator of some cases involving illegal stock promotion. Moreno pursues his investigation...