Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...town visitors until the following spring. Ziegfeld called the 1927 edition his last, spent $300,000 to mount it. It ran for 60 weeks. In 1931 he put on his positively last Follies at his own Ziegfeld Theatre. In July 1932 the old grandee died in Hollywood. Last summer Broadway's two great salvage men, Lee and J. J. Shubert, contracted for the great name "Ziegfeld Follies" from Billie Burke Ziegfeld. They immediately set about giving their name a show. Knowing the Shuberts' famed pinchbeck failings, Mrs. Ziegfeld began by passing on director, cast, sets and costumes. Since...
...This trick he considers a "darb." In Sons of the Desert, Charley Chase makes his first appearance in a full length picture. His rôle shows him to less advantage than the series of two-reel Hal Roach comedies which, since 1930, have made him one of Hollywood's most famed funnymen. Charley Chase's value, like that of most cinema comedians, is his appearance. He is a pale, clerical, common place individual whose manners should match his unobtrusive looks. Instead, he is equipped with preposterous permanent jitters. He produces laughter founded largely upon disapproval. His favorite...
...first picture for Universal. He was $5-per-day extra for Keystone, before he became a Keystone director, an actor for Hal Roach in 1925. As officious offscreen as on, Chase writes and directs his own two-reel comedies. He planned and helped build his own bungalow in Hollywood. His hair, which photographs black, is as grey as Charlie Chaplin's. He dresses foppishly, plays seven musical instruments, currently receives more fan mail than any other comedian in cinema...
Gallant Lady (20th Century) registers once more Hollywood's conviction that Ann Harding finds it difficult to reconcile her love life with a career. Since she divorced Harry Bannister two years ago because he was "becoming a background for my activities and looked upon as 'Ann Harding's husband,' " her producers have persistently set her to exploring marital problems of the day. Gallant Lady, a courteous description of a self-consciously noble character, catches up themes familiar to her recent pictures. Instead of the lovelorn plastic surgeon in The Right to Romance, blonde Actress Harding this...
...fight remains a smashing one, a fine climax to the production. Myrna, of course, is much in evidence; Walter Huston, as Maxie's manager, does a solid bit of work, and Otto Kruger, as Myrna's one-time gangster lover, is much more convincing than any Hollywood gangster has a right to be. The surprise of the thing, however, comes with the realization that Max Baer is not totally devoid of acting ability; even though a Vanity Fair author once characterized him as "so many pounds of perfectly coordinated muscle, all ably animated by the brain of a ten-year...