Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...smugglers is the task of Detective Nigel Bruce. Munching peanuts, looking dumb, he succeeds, after his antagonists have been able to commit only two murders, in outwitting them. Intermittently, caught in the whirlpool of tropical action, Miss Heather Angel and a recent British import named Douglas Walton add standard Hollywood romance to the picture. A motorboat chase and an expedition through a quicksand swamp form the principal excitements of the film, but it is the acting of Mr. Bruce and his cohorts which raises "Murder in Trinidad" above other thrillers...
...native to New York, the oldtime music hall revivals started in the West. The Drunkard has been running almost a year in Hollywood...
Died. Karl Dane (Rasmus Karl Thekelsen Gottlieb), 47, cinemactor who achieved fame as "Slim" in The Big Parade; by his own hand (revolver); in Hollywood. Reason: in the talkies he could find...
Every day the newspapers carry headlines announcing that a father and his children are reunited after a separation of 25 years, and the accompanying photographs show the loving couple entwined in a close embrace. But despite the value of such a story to the newspapers, Hollywood has decreed that the reunion cannot take place so harmoniously...
...John Barrymore, in "Long Lost Father" the garrulous rake, the charming outwitter of bookies, must first help his daughter, Helen Chandler out of difficulty before she is willing to recognize him. Hollywood, after showing us Barrymore in almost every role that it has hidden up its sleeve, seems at last to have cast him in a part that suits his dashing air perfectly. Not that the plot is anything new or that he wears the uniform of a Russian general to set off his profile. But the carefree, pleasantly daring and above all adventurous (by inference if not by actual...