Word: janet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood. As an actor, the young German was ignored by the cinema industry. The best he could do was to get a part in The Brothers Karamazov at the Pasadena Community Playhouse. To while the time away, Kosleck taught himself to paint, did some background pictures for a Janet Gaynor film. Last month the Los Angeles Museum took a long chance on this unknown and opened a one-man show of his works. By last week Martin Kosleck had achieved 'a degree of critical fame in and out of Hollywood which would probably never have been his as a cinemactor...
...More Spring" is the other idyll, which brings together a team of lovers which by all rights according to all critics in all advertisements ought to be together all the time, Warner Baxter and Janet Gaynor. We, however, remember Warner Baxter as the dashing Mexican in the cinematic versions of O. Henry's southwest stories, and as the strong man in "The Renegade," and as the rebel in "Broadway Bill," so somehow we feel forced to disagree with all other critics. Despite the fact that the story is very sweet, we like Warner better in a much more masculine role...
...furniture dealer (Warner Baxter) whose sole reminder of previous affluence is a gigantic antique bed. One is a violinist (Walter King), who finds himself humiliated in his efforts to practice in public by kindly passersby who mistake him for a street musician. The third is a demure actress (Janet Gaynor) who meets the furniture dealer when both are trying to filch a supper from the open kitchen windows of the Central Park Casino...
...abandon her wardrobe and learn how to cook, sew, and other things. She comes back home with a chauffeur on her mind and it does not surprise the audience that the chauffeur is also a budding engineer and his father-in-law the largest motor manufacturer in Sweden. Janet Gaynor and Lew Ayres take one and a half fairly amusing hours to make the "big decision...
...would have helped the playwright by appearing in his play. At a party after the opening night in Atlantic City, the brother of the Montreal derelict would have recognized in the cardsharp the villain responsible for his sister's disappearance. The playboy would have fallen in love with Janet Evans and this, by a roundabout chain of circumstances, would have saved the life of the convicted murderer. So carried away is Janet Evans by these glimpses into her discarded future that she is horrified when the Kansas City playwright, who would have been her husband, walks into Heaven...