Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...football manager and a member of the track team. When he was graduated in 1920, he went to work in a Manhattan bank. David Belasco gave him a part in Debonair that autumn; he has been an actor ever since. His resemblance to John Barrymore helped him in Hollywood; his first really important picture was The Royal Family of Broadway. In Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde he writhed and gibbered in a role that John Barrymore created in a silent picture ten years before. His real name is Frederick Bickel. He had to change; it rhymed with pickle...
...worked in a silver mine to get money to go on the stage?it was his second Academy award. His first was in 1928, for Seventh Heaven. It was the second time also for Frances Marion who, one of the most highly paid and consistently successful scenarists in Hollywood, was a star reporter in San Francisco before she started writing for the cinema at $15 a week, working up to an Academy prize in 1930 for The Big House. Lee Garmes, noted for his "low lighting," was a cameraman's assistant at 13. He came to notice with The Grand...
Whether the producers found in the big frame and wide mouth of Joan Crawford a ready-made Sadie Thompson, or whether they softened to respect an author who bids fair to fill Hollywood unconsciously with excellent South Sea scenarios is hard to say. Whatever has been spoiled in this production is that which has been added to the stage show, not taken away. The result is a sincere impressive play, full, but not blown up with sentiment and passion, and interrupted constantly by manifestations of the mechanical ingenuity of the producers. These Hollywood moguls obviously feel that it would reflect...
...Though Hollywood's leading couturiers have long been successful not in copying fashions but in setting them, it is only recently that the cinema has started to revolutionize the art of interior decoration. Beyond its direction and cast, Trouble in Paradise is fortunate in its sets, by Hans Dreier. Furniture manufacturers would do well to examine closely a collection of clocks which mark, with morbidly graceful hands and pleasant tinkles, a space of several hours in which Miss Francis and Mr. Marshall are up to no good. Also, Miss Francis' bed, whose contours are inviting but polite...
...seems extremely probable, Herbert Marshall becomes a genuine U. S. cinema star, with a high box office rating and a salary to match, it will be a most extraordinary turn of events. His appeal is essentially neither sentimental nor simian. In an era when Hollywood's other successful matinee idols either beat their women or sing to them, he personifies grace, intelligence, poise, wit. Son of a British actor, Herbert Marshall fitted himself, at St. Mary's College, to be an articled clerk. He did so poorly at it that he was forced to go on the stage. Just before...