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Love on the Run (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Sally (Joan Crawford) is a fabulously rich U. S. heiress engaged to Igor (Ivan Lebedeff), fabulously torpid European fortune hunter. She leaves him waiting at the church to run off with Michael (Clark Gable), fabulously adroit U. S. reporter. After junketing in Europe by airplane, delivery truck and wheelbarrow, they spend a night in the palace at Fontainebleau. Michael then tells Sally simultaneously that 1) he loves her and 2) he has been using their escapade to make headlines in the U. S. Sally takes up with Michael's gullible rival reporter...
...conduct is characteristic. He has had an average of 84 during his four years, will undoubtedly be elected to Phi Beta Kappa this year. His career could not have been more expertly designed to get him a good job after graduation if it had been arranged by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Kelley's current plan is to become a prep-school teacher and football coach. Said he last week as he left the field after his last and greatest game: "Gee, I'm sorry my career is over! I feel sort of funny. I guess I ought...
Tarzan Escapes (Metro -Goldwyn-Mayer) has one striking difference from its predecessor, Tarzan and His Mate, Mate Maureen O'Sullivan, who once frolicked through the jungle almost nude, now wears a tunic far more modest than most bathing suits. Despite the Legion of Decency, however, Tarzan's mate is still "Miss Jane Parker" to the whites who journey into Africa to find...
...managers was to cut the titles with the Hearst name on them and insert substitute titles and subtitles. Last week, after his return from Europe, William Randolph Hearst made the change official. Hereafter, Hearst newsreels will be released under a new title: News of the Day, distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
Come and Get It was budgeted by expansive Producer Goldwyn at $1,000,000. It cost 25% more. Part of the increase was caused by delay when Director Howard Hawks quit, after differences of opinion with Producer Goldwyn, to be replaced by William Wyler. Part was caused by Stunt Director Richard Rosson's discovery, when he went to the north woods to photograph lumberjacks riding falling trees or breaking up log jams, that these daring practices, familiar to preceding generations of lumberjacks, are scorned by contemporaries as unsophisticated generosity to their employers. He had to return to Hollywood...