Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...been extinguished by television, critics of the fine arts may wonder at what point the motion picture ceased to be mere superficial entertainment and became recognized, in addition, as the new art form. If they concede that it is art, they can easily be deceived into believing that Hollywood producers first regarded it as such when they billed a film at reserved prices. Today that practice is being abused regularly, so that every fifth production is dressed out as great and sold to the public at $2.20 a seat. But in the past, in the dim beginnings of the movie...
...Artistic excellence and box-office success are not always the same thing, even to Hollywood. The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures has a committee on exceptional photoplays that annually picks ten U. S. pictures for their artistic merit. Top choice for 1937 was creepy, melodramatic Night Must Fall. Others, in order: The Life of Emile Zola, Black Legion, Camille, Make Way for Tomorrow, The Good Earth, They Won't Forget, Captains Courageous, A Star Is Born, Stage Door...
...Streets, Danielle Darrieux in Mayerling, Greta Garbo in Camille, Robert Montgomery in Night Must Full, Maria Ouspenskaya in Conquest, Luise Rainer in The Good Earth, Joseph Schildkraut in The Life of Emile Zola, Mathias Wieman in The Eternal Mask, Dame May Whitty in Night Must Fall. Unmentioned was Hollywood's 1937 pride, Paul Muni (Zola), recently accorded a niche in Hollywood's Hall of Fame in the Carthay Circle Theatre...
Peter the First (Lenfilm) is a colossally bad imitation of Hollywood's super-colossal technique. It attempts to compress Tolstoy's story of the 36-year reign (1689-1725) of Peter the Great into ten reels, showing Peter as an anti-religious reformer, a groundbreaker for Stalin. The picture places boisterous emphasis on Peter's essential democracy, particularly his wiving of the Lithuanian commoner who later became Catherine I. Colossal capstone: Peter, toasting Russia's bright future, publicly bussing the bare bottom of Catherine's first-born child...
Died, Ted Healy, 41, stage & film funster who invented the disapproving "stooge"; in Los Angeles, two nights after he had been beaten up near the Hollywood Trocadero where he was celebrating the birth of a son. A coroner's autopsy found that death was caused by no thrashing, but by "acute toxic nephritis, induced by acute and chronic alcoholism...