Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Married. Sylvanus Stokes Jr., Manhattan yachtsman; to Miss Patty du Pont, cinemactress; in Hollywood, Calif. Eric von Stroheim functioned as best...
...Lampoon commends the admirable restraint exhibited by omission of the obvious reference to "indifferent horsemanship." The Granta, possibly justifiably, saw no reason to exclude the obvious and its American number is liberally sprinkled with remarks concerning those things by which the United States is known to the Englishman: Hollywood, Mayor Thompson of Chicago, and banditry--of Chicago and elsewhere...
...been picked up again by the movies. Witness "Rose of the Golden West" and the current Metropolitan attraction, Richard Dix in "The Gay Defender". Be it remarked immediately that they did these things better with the help of Mary Pickford's husband. Certainly there are enough important Latins in Hollywood to keep Mr. Dix, the American of them all, out of slit Spanish trousers and Mexican fandangos. He is pre-eminently a home boy and should be discouraged in any more attempts to hit for Fairbanks. The film as casual amusement is pleasing enough. Thelma Todd is good to look...
...story is the usual merry epic of a Fairbanks production. It begins with the miracle of the pool by which a shepherdess is made whole by looking at a vision of the Virgin Mary, whom, if the shepherdess had known her Hollywood, she would have recognized as Mary Pickford, America's sweetheart. A city grows up around the shrine of the pool. Hearing of the wealth which grateful recipients of its healing power have laid at the feet of the shepherdess (now the priestess of the shrine), El Gaucho rides toward it through imaginary Andes, as steep and beautiful...
...Notre Dame" to a place in that small and select group of movies which have successfully recounted one of the classic themes of literature. In the first place, "Les Miserables" was produced in France with an entirely French cast so that we are spared the painful experience of seeing Hollywood blondes in the role of early nineteenth century Parisian beauties and handsome Anglo-Saxon heroes in the part of Latin apaches. In the second place, there is scarcely a flaw in the artistic perfection of the producers' achievement. Scenes, costumes, and settings are consistently as they should be; anachronistic details...