Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...result, now showing in Boston at the Colonial Theatre, is a powerful, vivid, and entertaining motion picture. Starring the delectable Alice Faye, it is an interesting portrayal of Chicago in the seventies, and the climax--the great fire of 1871--is a worthy addition to the recent series of Hollywood excursions into the realm of spectacular catastrophe...
...remaining barrier to the championship is his own protégé (Actor Morris). In setting the stage for the old trial horse to have his day at last, the story permits itself a few trenchant observations about heavyweight champions who retire to Connecticut farms to read Shakespeare, titled Hollywood hangers-on, and wrestlers-who, in the gruff MacLane lingo, are nothing but a lot of humpty dumpties. What dates The Kid Comes Back even more surely than its two-year-old automobile models is the anachronistic quip: "This time I'm right. . . ." "Oh yeah! So was the Literary...
...Shanghai bombing (TIME, Sept. 13); 2) its hopeful experiment with doll-like, undistinguished June Lang (real name: Jane Vlasek) as a beautiful-but-dumb comedian; 3) its commanding hero, 6 ft.-3 in. George Sanders. Russian-born of British parents, Sanders made a great stir in his first Hollywood role, as the foppish Lord Stacy in Lloyd's of London. Immediately earmarked for stardom by Producer Darryl Zanuck, he has been undergoing a melodramatic course of sprouts (Slave Ship, Lancer Spy). International Settlement makes it clear that, even in the presence of seasoned troupers like prettily prognathous Dolores...
Everybody Sing (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) stars 15-year-old Judy Garland, Hollywood's latest child singer. She turns the morning singing hour of the Colvin School for Girls into a swing session. Sent home to the jittery bosom of a family infected with the slightly threadbare lunacy which has been bothering recent cinema families, she croons her way to a career with the help of Olga, a screwball maid (Fanny Brice), and Ricky (Allan Jones), a singing chef. Best of the Kaper-Jurmann tunes: Swing, Mr. Mendelssohn. Best Fanny Brice number: Quainty Dainty Me with her famed spirit...
Little Miss Roughneck (Columbia), a mild satire on Hollywood parents, exhibits another show-struck girl, Edith Fellows, making the most of her opportunity when allowed to do a number at a benefit. Later, en route to Hollywood, she inflicts her version of Gunga Din on the passengers of a transcontinental train. Encouraged by a too-ambitious mother (Margaret Irving), her brattishness persists until a gentle Mexican (Leo Carrillo) brings out the latent good in her. Best performance: Mr. Carrillo's dependable spick...