Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. was an amalgamation of P. T. Barnum, Lucullus and St. Francis of Assisi. combining the advantageous features of all three, while the musical shows he produced were prodigies of good taste, imagination and romantic ingenuity. The Great Ziegfeld perpetuates this questionable legend with characteristic Hollywood insistence...
...second half of the picture exhibits in euphemistic style the collapse of Producer Ziegfeld's romance with Anna Held, his meeting with Billie Burke (Myrna Loy), Christmas Day among the home-loving Ziegfelds, including small Patricia and her dolls. Enraged as his stars go off to Hollywood, Ziegfeld goes into a slump. He recoups again, puts four simultaneous hits on Broadway, mortgages their receipts to play the market. When Producer Ziegfeld died in 1932, he was heavily in debt.* In this particular, the picture is historically trustworthy. Its hero is shown expiring in elegant penury, an orchid...
Small Town Girl (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Cinemactress Janet Gaynor occupies a unique niche in Hollywood. She is one of the half dozen pre-talkie stars who are still front rank box-office attractions. This phenomenal record has been made in the face of the fact that for ten years she has been playing, with superficial variations but no real exceptions, one role, that of Cinderella. The news that, loaned to MGM, she was to appear in a Ben Ames Williams story originally picked for Jean Harlow started hopes that Miss Gaynor's marathon might be about to end. Small...
...Hollywood "Kidnapping...
...Levantine slant to her eyebrows than Charles Boyer, but both of them succeed eminently in depicting the grim subservience to authority husband for one and country for the other that is the essence of this film. Their performances in this production, we are told, gave them their introduction to Hollywood...