Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bitter battle to vamp the latter's spouse, "but they only use it in kennels." This briefly is the tenor of "The Women," currently showing at both Loew's theatres. It is often said that if the movies would only paint life as it actually is and not as Hollywood script writers think it is, the attendance at the many movie palaces would be far greater. Metro must have taken this frequent criticism to heart when it produced this most realistic of realistic pictures...
Stars there are in profusion, for Hollywood's largest flesh stable has sunk all its featured fillies in this production. Norma Shearer, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, and Mary Boland are all mixed up in some capacity or other in the film. Of the above, Miss Russell, Miss Boland, and Miss Goddard are all excellent. As for the other gilded lillies, their names appear first in lights, but their acting falls far below the supporting cast...
With "Four Feathers," Hollywood offers to what has now become a somewhat suspecting public another example of victorious British imperialism. Mr. Mason's story of a coward seeking to regain his self-respect while England is avenging the murder of General Gordon no longer proves to be very exciting, or even interesting, fare. Whether it is the slow-paced direction or the European war that detracts from the glory of the Sudan campaign and Omdurman is hard to tell. It is probably a combination of both, with the former chiefly at fault. Although the photography is excellent, too great...
Propaganda was a questionmark, with Hollywood evenly divided between plans to capitalize on War headlines, and plans to make traditional escapist pictures. Samuel Goldwyn announced Blackout Over Europe; Warner Brothers, who fired the first shot this year with Confessions of a Nazi Spy, announced a string of comedies. Charles Chaplin continued with The Dictator, and Paramount bought the timely Battalion of Death. Though War Department plans for drafting industry naturally include the cinema, only hint last week from Washington was a request to advance the release date on two patriotic pictures: M. G. M.'s Thunder Afloat (about...
After selling his 1937 best-seller for $55,000, Author Bromfield, no lover of Hollywood, returned to his expatriate retreat outside Paris, thence prankishly dispatched identical telegrams to Constance Bennett, Kay Francis and Marlene Dietrich, informing each that she was his choice for the sought-after part of Lady Esketh. Harried Producer Zanuck got no peace until he solved the mystery, passed the telegrams around. The only memorable performance in The Rains Came is that of button-faced, button-sized Russian veteran Maria Ouspenskaya. Cast as Charles Boyer's grandmother in one scene in Love Affair this year, Actress...