Word: hellman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Among them, besides Mr. Howard himself: Bella & Samuel Spewack (Ethan Frame}, Lillian Hellman (The Children's Hour...
Adapted from an 1890 best seller by Laura Elizabeth Richards, directed by David Butler, Captain January belongs to a special class of cinema. Neither epic, romance nor extravaganza, it is designed solely as its star's vehicle. The screen play by Sam Hellman, Gladys Lehman and Harry Tugend is pleasantly salty and the supporting players comport themselves as expertly as usual. As an item of entertainment, however, the value of Captain January depends entirely upon the fact that Shirley Temple appears in almost every sequence, grinning, sobbing, dancing, singing, wriggling, pattering down stairs or spitting on her pinafore...
These Three (Samuel Goldwyn). When Producer Samuel Goldwyn paid $40,000 for the screen rights to Lillian Hellman's famed play, The Children's Hour, the Hays organization had a mild attack of frenzy. The Children's Hour relates the case of two young schoolteachers whose lives are wrecked when one of their pupils accuses them of Lesbianism. This seemed to the guardians of the cinema industry's morals so appalling that they not only banned both the title of the play and its plot but refused to allow Producer Goldwyn even to announce that...
Last week Miss Hellman's adaptation of her own play made the perturbation of the Hays organization look as silly as it made Producer Goldwyn look shrewd. In the screen version the rumor charges one of the teachers with normal rather than abnormal misbehavior. This trivial change strengthens rather than weakens the story, makes it entirely fit for the consumption of all cinemaddicts with the most rudimentary knowledge of the facts of life. Brilliantly directed by William Wyler and acted by an admirable cast, These Three remains on the screen what The Children's Hour...
These Three may presage a year in which child actresses will provide their own antidote to Shirley Temple and, barring the unforeseeable, should win Author Hellman next year's Academy prize for adaptation. In the part that 25-year-old Florence McGee plays on the stage, solemn nervous Bonita Granville, 13, makes herself as odious as any little girl who has yet appeared in cinema. Among the other children concerned, major acting honors in These Three go to plump little Marcia Mae Jones, as Rosalie, Mary Tilford's unwilling accomplice. Good shot: Mary blackmailing Rosalie into corroborating...