Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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British rivalry to Hollywood will become even more brisk. Gaumont-British will release 24 films in the U. S., Alliance 14, London Films (through United Artists) eight, with two dozen more from minor British producers. Twentieth Century-Fox will make five films in England...
...long and astonishing professional career of William Claude Dukinfield (W. C. Fields) is divided conveniently into three portions. In the first he was a vaudeville juggler. In the second, he became a star on the Manhattan stage. In the third he recouped a fortune, lost in 1929, as a Hollywood comedian. That Poppy might conclude the third portion was a possibility which appeared imminent last week. Desperately ill most of last year, Fields went to Soboba Hot Springs for a rest after his first picture in almost two years. There last week he was stricken with pneumonia, rushed...
...origin and growth of mob violence and its development into the characterisically American form of the lynching. Not a pleasant experience, but one of such dramatic power and potential social importance that it cannot be missed. Accompanying this excellent picture is a stupid, slow-moving, puerile bit of Hollywood drivel which calls itself "Speed" and commands attention solely for its almost unopposed candidacy for this year's prize lemon...
Private Number (Twentieth Century-Fox) is that old stage play Common Clay, in which the beautiful young servant girl's love for the handsome collegiate son of her employers runs its course without benefit of clergy. The higher official moral standards of Hollywood bring Matrimony to Ellen (Loretta Young) and Dick (Robert Taylor) quite early in their attachment. He is home for the summer, and she has only lately taken service under Wroxton (Basil Rathbone), a tyrannical butler who collects a personal assessment, sometimes amatory, from the employes he engages for the Winfields. Failing to collect from Ellen, Wroxton...
Died. Jobyna Howland, 56, six-foot-tall, self-styled original Gibson Girl, celebrated character actress and musicomedienne (The Gold Diggers, Kid Boots, Ruggles of Red Gap); of heart disease; in Hollywood...