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...loud & leering orgy of indelicacy & suggestiveness." Subsequent Follies helped to make Ziegfeld a millionaire, "glorified" a succession of beautiful women,* including Justine Johnstone, Olive Thomas, Marilyn Miller (he called hers "the most beautiful form in the world"), Yvonne Taylor ("she wore the most beautiful tights"), Mae Murray, Lilyan Tashman, Ina Claire, Billie Dove, Mary Hay, Nita Naldi, Marion Davies, Peggy Hopkins Joyce. He was responsible for the fame of Will Rogers, Bert Williams, William Claude Fields, Eddie Cantor, Jack Donahue...
...cost $1,000,000 or more. All producers cut office salaries; most producers tried to cut the salaries of employes under contract. George Arliss and Richard Barthelmess reduced their own salaries. James Cagney last week quit Hollywood because his pay was not increased (see p. 26). Also last week Ina Claire retired from the cinema to return to the stage. Her reason: "I didn't have my say. I took the movies too seriously...
Engaged. John Gilbert, film actor; and Virginia Bruce, his leading lady in Downstairs (now in production). Cinemactor Gilbert may not wed until his divorce from his third wife, Ina Claire, becomes final...
...plural pronoun can therefore be construed as an especially devious example of the skill with which the cinema defends its patrons from their own prurience. In his other improvements on the Akins play, Producer Goldwyn was guided less by a sense of decency than a sense of decoration. Ina Claire, Joan Blondell and Madge Evans are even more alluring than the ladies who occupied their roles in the theatre. Their clothes were designed for them by Mile Gabrielle Chanel, who was summoned to Hollywood in person for the purpose...
...story itself remains about as it was on the stage, except that Jean (Ina Claire) has been made more important than Polaire (Madge Evans). The picture starts when Jean returns from Europe, eager to make friends with money. Double-crossing her companions, she tries first to steal the aged "fiance" of Schatze (Joan Blondell), then appropriates a vain pianist who has taken a passing fancy to Polaire. Finally she meets the father of Polaire's most devoted admirer and in-veigles him into matrimony. There follows the one scene in which the cinema does not quite measure...