Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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MERTON OF THE MOVIES?From the duckpond of Simsbury, Ill., Merton Gill (Glenn Hunter), unsophisticated duckling, takes flight to Hollywood, imagining he is a swan. The dream collapses, but the duckling succeeds in an hilarious parody of other waddlers...
POLLY PREFERRED?A pretty face (on Genevieve Tobin) and Paris gowns (on the rest of Miss Tobin) carry a virtuous and unsuccessful chorine from the Automat to Fashion Row?from Fashion Row to Fame (Hollywood variety...
Scars of Jealousy. It was well past mid-afternoon in Thomas H. Ince's Hollywood ranch and the visiting stockholders were thirsty for another picture. Tugging viciously at the bellpull, which, from seeing his own pictures, Mr. Ince seriously believed to be a correct as well as expensive convenience, the great man summoned Lambert Hillyer, his director...
Within the Law. A miracle has come to pass. Within the Law has been adapted for the screen minus the emendations and Hollywood inspirations usually deemed necessary to cinematize a play or story. The result is exactly what intelligent people (a pitifully meagre group when one reflects that 4,000,000 attend pictures daily in America) have so long prophesied: Within the Law is not only consistently interesting, but it is convincing. This may, but probably will not, prove to a few of the commercial directors that it is actually profitable to leave the original dramatist to his own devices...
POLLY PREFERRED-A diverting splutter of salesmanship, southern accent, money and a movie director. Opens in the Automat and closes in Hollywood. Genevieve Tobin is " Polly...