Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Strange Interlude (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Eugene O'Neill's cinematized nine-act play of soul-sucking Nina Leeds drew a record crowd at its Hollywood opening. Translated and truncated to cinema form, it retold capably the story of the woman who needed three men to satisfy her comprehensive fixation on her father. The play's famed soliloquies indicating the thoughts of the characters are retained. As in the play they are of three kinds: 1) to show the secret mind of the speaker; 2) to comment on the dialog; 3) to tell the audience what has happened...
...Hollywood Herald called Strange Interlude "empiric." Critics thought this widely advertised trick play, though undramatic, might interest cinema audiences in a narrative type of cinema, set a new and profitable fashion...
Married. Ralph De Palma, 49, automobile racing driver; and one Marian Leggett, 36; in Las Vegas, Nev. Honeymoon: seeking a job for him on Hoover Dam. Married, Sylvia ("Madame") Ulback, 51, Hollywood masseuse, author of gossipy Hollywood Undressed; and Edward Leiter, 39, actor, nephew of the late Chicago Tycoon Joseph Leiter; during a thunderstorm in Egremont, Mass. She divorced her first husband, one Andrew Ulback, secretly last fortnight in Mexico. Divorced. Ethel Catherwood McLaren, Canadian gymnast, "most beautiful woman athlete of the 1928 Olympic Games"; from James Gillan McLaren of Toronto; in Reno. Grounds: nonsupport. She intends to marry...
...getting himself out of romantic scrapes stands him in good stead when he is trying to right things between his son and daughter-in-law. In addition to poor casting-a defect common to British cinemas because the best British actors are either on the stage or in Hollywood-this one, second product of Paramount's Elstree studio to be released in the U. S., suffers from poor photography and sound recording. Typical shot: Margot (Gertrude Lawrence) and Willie (Owen Nares) squabbling in an ornate night-club while a Negro orchestra in shirt-sleeves plays The Peanut Vendor amid...