Word: janet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...casts. Universal last year was addicted to monsters. Encouraged five years ago by the vast success of Seventh Heaven to believe that simple, sentimental romances of the type which Mary Pickford played in 15 years ago are not yet obsolete, Fox has diligently furnished them. Usually Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor are hero & heroine. Their antics delight naive audiences and bewilder supercilious ones. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, although Marian Nixon and Ralph Bellamy are the stars instead of Farrell & Gaynor, is in the tradition of Daddy Long Legs and Delicious. Cinemaddicts who would be unable to enjoy watching Marian Nixon...
Some Fermata alumnae: Katrina McCormick, daughter of Mrs. Albert Gallatin Simms (Ruth Hanna McCormick); Gladys Széchényi, daughter of the Hungarian Minister to the U. S.; Elizabeth Elkins (Philadelphia socialite); Nancy Heckscher, niece of Philanthropist August Heckscher; Janet White, daughter of Mrs. Richard S. Aldrich (wife of the socialite Representative from Rhode Island...
Publishing last week first results of a questionnaire addressed to exhibitors. Motion Picture Herald revealed that the most valuable players were Marie Dressier, Janet Gaynor, Joan Crawford and Greta Garbo; Wallace Beery. Will Rogers, Charles Farrell, Clark Gable, Wheeler & Woolsey. Producers lost most of their money on program pictures?pictures of standard length (55 to 60 min.) meant to fit in on any theatre program...
Married. Francis V. du Pont, 37. of Wilmington, Del., son of the late Senator Thomas Coleman du Pont; and Janet M. Gram, 24, of Buffalo, N. Y.; in Baltimore. Present was the bridegroom's brother-in-law. Delaware's Governor C. Douglass Buck...
...Marriage Bed, the picture adds up as a sincere and thoughtful if somewhat superficial sermon on the sanctity of marriage and the insignificance of escapade. Typical shot: Juliette Compton saying "Don't let me die!" to Clive Brook just after taking the poison. Delicious (Fox). Pictures in which Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell appear together seldom change plot. Janet Gaynor is a waif of some sort and Charles Farrell is a personable, wealthy young man. Beyond waiting for Miss Gaynor to break into song or into the peculiar prancing gait which she affects in moments of exuberance, there is never...