Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fascism which should cause it to be banned in Germany and Italy. The climax of the picture is an even more explicit description of a Wellsian Utopia than that foresighted author has ever divulged to his reading public. As a spectacle, Things to Come compares favorably with its Hollywood rivals, from Intolerance to The Crusades, but it differs from all predecessors in its class by demanding a cerebral rather than an emotional response. Its climax is reached not when two lovers are reunited but when an unmarried couple (Pearl Argyle, Kenneth Villiers) more interested in the cosmos than in each...
...likely to be surprised when a fatigued-looking young man, who has ushered them from an anteroom into a comfortable but shabby little office, then seats himself behind its desk and says: "I am Mr. Korda." That, at 42, Kingpin Korda looks and acts like anything but a Hollywood cinemagnate is no accident. A bright young Budapest journalist who got interested in the cinema in 1916, he reached Hollywood by way of Vienna, Rome and Berlin in 1925. His Private Life of Helen of Troy was one of the best silent pictures of its era. When Director Korda left Hollywood...
Producer Korda's start as a journalist left him with a respect for the profession of writing. His sojourn in Hollywood convinced him that the importance of writers to the cinema had been vastly underrated, only less foolishly than the importance of the cinema to writers. From this it was a short step to the conclusion that the payroll of London Film Productions, Ltd. was the proper place for an author like H. G. Wells. Few writers of comparable distinction have ever worked in Hollywood. Most of these have either laughed at or despised their jobs. Author Wells...
...cinema industry functioned in converted garrets, suburban garden backyards and a few vacant lots at Elstree. Producer Korda bought an enormous tract of land at Denham and set about building a $5,000,000 studio which, now almost complete, is as big and as well equipped as anything in Hollywood...
...whether the brains behind the shabby desk in Grosvenor Street were really capable of supplying them with serious competition for the world cinema markets. Last week they knew the answer. Things to Come may or may not entrance U. S. cinemaddicts but it is likely to make bigwigs in Hollywood scratch their heads about a future much more immediate than...