Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fantastic situations, by enlarging to heroic proportions the frenzied, egomaniac character of Impresario Oscar Jaffe (John Barrymore), and by detailing the way he discovers a lingerie model named Mildred Plotka (Carole Lombard), turns her into Lily Garland the Great Actress, bullies her and loses her to Hollywood. Thereafter Jaffe, who resembles Morris Gest, Richard Bennett, Josef von Sternberg and the late David Belasco, produces a succession of failures, ends up in Chicago with money troubles...
Success at Any Price (RKO) is a manual of futility, bitterness and despair, adapted from John Howard Lawson's play Success Story and designed to bludgeon home Hollywood's maxim that money is not everything. Joe Martin (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) is prompted by the death of his gangster brother to leave the East Side and rise in the world. Helped by his sweetheart Sarah (Colleen Moore), he gets a job in an advertising agency. His success soon begins when with the aid of a dictionary he turns out better copy than a college-bred rival. By dint...
...Hollywood has tried, through "Men in White" to portray the life of a hospital doctor, but now it has turned its attention to the feminine side of the question and has given as "Registered Nurse," now showing at the Paramount and Fenway theaters. It is the story of a woman whose husband goes insane after a serious automobile accident, and her relations with the rest of the hospital force where she installs herself after leading her husband...
Warner Baxter again heads the cast of a Hollywood musical extravaganza of the sort which is steadily encroaching upon the field once monopolized by Florenz Ziegfeld and George White on the legitimate stage. The show is "Stand Up and Cheer" at the Keith's Memorial Theatre on Tremont Street...
...naturally a great strain on the Hollywood song writers to keep on producing hits, and if they fail to do so on one or two occasions, they can hardly be condemned as any worse than human. There is Mr. Bing Crosby, Baxter, Vallee, and several others who appear periodically in films which should have song hits. Mr. Baxter had the best luck of all when he started out in "42nd Street." Mr. Crosby has also been awarded a number of highly acceptable tunes such as "Please," "Love Thy Neighbor," "Here Lies Love." "Stand Up and Cheer" is equipped with pleasant...