Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Suzanne (Fox), is the third U. S. film made by Lilian Harvey, small, slim English-born actress who made her reputation in a German film, Congress Dances. Like most of Jesse L. Lasky's productions for Fox, it is aimed at what Hollywood calls "class" audiences. Partly a masterpiece and partly a mess, I Am Suzanne is unique among this season's musical pictures because it strives for satiric fantasy instead of a high-priced combination of pornography and farce. Its most important actors are not humans but the Piccoli puppets (TIME...
...three or four years now there has been a perpetual caravan of actors trekking the plains from Broadway to Hollywood, exchanging all the comforts of civilized drama for the barbarous and uncertain hazards of the Sierra cinema. Concerning these new pictures a theory has been noised about, which makes their aim not so much the immediate gold of the West as fame which will redound to their profit on their return to the legitimate. This is supposed, by tipsters of this school, to have been Katharine Hepburn's true reason for entering the movies, and now that "Jezebel" appears, Miriam...
...Texans jumbled out of the hall, grumbling loudly. In Hollywood where he went to discuss a cinema contract plump Baritone Thomas said: "Sure, I walked out and I'd do it again. Singers must eat and as for myself I'm especially fond of eating...
...rapacious owner who compels his captain to break the transatlantic record although they both know the vessel has dilapidated plates. This leads to an exciting last act in which the troubles of the Atlantia's passenger list are resolved by maritime disaster. Written with one eye on Hollywood and the other on old newspaper clippings-incidents in the play suggest Sinclair Lewis, the Vestris sinking, Walter Winchell, and other topical importances-False Dreams, Farewell is a lively and engrossing one-roof melodrama, well acted, fast and full of obvious but persuasive tricks. Its most entertaining personage is Novelist Christopher...
...London of 1934 and the charms of a worldly woman (Judith Anderson). He is torn between joy in his love and despair at her breezy cynicism. At a cocktail party, the Woman, weaving drunkenly among her guests, discovers that the Boy has signed a contract to write for Hollywood. That everyone knows this except herself sends her into a fit of rage. When the Boy comes demurely in she is auctioning him off to her covetous lady friends: Here's property for sale, A little worn and frail, But definitely male. Full of shame, the Boy rushes away. Poignantly...