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...with a stock company, then to Manhattan, then to Hollywood. His favorite role was his part opposite Ruth Chatterton in The Rich Are Always With Us. His engagement to marry Ruth Chatterton, not yet divorced from Ralph Forbes, was announced last fortnight (TIME, July 18). His favorite actress is Greta Garbo...
...Angeles when she was 13, attended Holly wood High School. After her sophomore year at the University of California at Los Angeles she joined the Pasadena Com munity Playhouse. When Director Clarence Brown was casting male actors for Inspiration, he asked Karen Morley, hired as an extra, to read Greta Garbo's lines. She did it well enough to get a screen test, a part in Inspiration, a long-term contract. Now approximately 22, Cinemactress Mor ley is 5 ft. 4 in., 104 lb., hazel-eyed. Her mouth is too big, her nose too sharp...
Publishing last week first results of a questionnaire addressed to exhibitors. Motion Picture Herald revealed that the most valuable players were Marie Dressier, Janet Gaynor, Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo; Wallace Beery. Will Rogers, Charles Farrell, Clark Gable, Wheeler & Woolsey. Producers lost most of their money on program pictures?pictures of standard length (55 to 60 min.) meant to fit in on any theatre program...
...same kettle of fish, cinema producers have lately realized that, to keep their own theatres open, they need the assistance of rival producers. Next year they will cooperate more than heretofore by lending high-priced players to each other to make sure the actors earn their salaries. Greta Garbo (MGM), who was planning to retire until last fortnight when she was reported to have lost $1,000,000 in the failure of the First National Bank of Beverly Hills, may make a picture for Paramount. Joan Crawford (MGM) last week finished Rain for United Artists. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will lend...
When Vicki Baum, who fortnight ago stated she would henceforth reside in the U. S. instead of Berlin, saw Grand Hotel, she had reason to be pleased with the adaptation of her play. Said she: "My admiration for Greta Garbo is unbounded. ... I see before me even now her tired, tragic face in the opening scenes and her extraordinary vivacity of expression and action as the happy Grusinskaya." It is a quick, sharp melodrama far superior to imitations of it already produced (Transatlantic, Union Depot, Hotel Continental). Edmund Goulding's direction is brilliant but the picture's greatest...