Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week a Hollywood actor lost his job for being drunk and disorderly on foreign soil. To Mexico City to make a picture called Viva Villa, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had sent Lee Tracy, famed for his staccato characterizations of reporters, press agents and politicians. Noted for his eccentric conviviality, Actor Tracy used to frequent Manhattan speakeasies with pockets full of cheese crackers and popcorn. Last week when 30,000 Mexican cadets paraded past his hotel he appeared on the balcony outside his bedroom, wrapped in a blanket. Throwing that off, he shouted profanities at the crowd, waved his arms...
...fact tempo of its characters. Perhaps it is the most suitable fashion in which to achieve successful presentation of middle class people, but it is not even remotely capable of the engrossing effect of the style of Sinclair Lewis. Mr. Gilkyson has made a great potential story for Hollywood but he has sacrified quality in the attempt. He is an able writer, but he has obviously created a story for a definite market and his work is stamped with all the limits and defects of that market. He gives a shallow result where he had an opportunity to create several...
...went out to Hollywood once to make a picture, but I never made it. There was a great deal of trouble, and I don't know what happened...
...still bull-necked Jack, the terror among strong men. The plot, appropriately enough, deals with a steel mill, in which jack is at liberty to romp with the hunkies. It is probably the closest approach to the good old Horatio Alger song and dance that the Hollywood demons have given us, and contains most of the elements, in addition, which made Mrs. Radcliffe's novels so popular at one time. Jack rises from the labouring crew to marry the boss' daughter, and, incidentally, to break the boss and supplant him in the business. Unfortunately, this bold adventurer becomes overconfident...
...gone far towards maiming the current cinema in Germany, there are many less recent productions, readily available at slight expense, whose worth goes undisputed. Even the silent films made by such artists as Emil Jannings and Conrad Veidt display a subtlety of touch seldom if ever matched in the Hollywood mill...