Word: jeane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...edit The American Home, Mr. Eaton shrewdly selected blonde, energetic young Mrs. Jean Austin, able Doubleday, Doran underling. Mrs. Austin gave The American Home the editorial slant which shot it to success...
...land grants in California in 1839, founded a private empire called New Helvetia, lost it when nuggets in his millstream started the gold rush and spent his last years begging Congress for restitution-came to the attention of Universal in 1928. The studio bought it as a vehicle for Jean Hersholt. When Hersholt left to join Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the picture was postponed. In 1934 Director Howard Hawks worked on the story with Screenwriter Gene Fowler. In 1935 Universal made overtures to Charles Laughton to play the lead, but Laughton went to MGM for Mutiny on the Bounty. By last...
...light, sophisticated comedy by Rachel Crothers, "Let Us Be Gay" appeared in the movies several years ago with Norma Shearer and Robert Montgomery taking the leading parts. The play deals with the eternal triangle, which this time revolves about Kitty Brown, played by Jean Miles of Wellesley, Bob Brown, and Dierdre Leaving, whose part is taken by Emillie Dreyfus of the Barnswallows...
When the picture opens, Dr. John Luke (Jean Hersholt) and his faithful nurse (Dorothy Peterson) are battling a diphtheria epidemic under adverse circumstances. It is the dead of Canadian winter. Wires have broken down. The village of Moosetown is cut off from the world. There is almost no serum left. The doctor's nephew, summoned by one of the doctor's lumberman patients with a homemade radio, arrives by plane with...
Both pictures at the University this week are fairly riotous, although the feature number adds a dash of satire to the run of rollicking fun. In "The Ghost Goes West," Robert Donat, last of the clan of Glourie, is forced to sell his ancestral castle at the moment Jean Parker happens along. He persuades her father (Eugene Pallette) a multimillionaire chain store tycoon, to buy the fortress and transplant it to the bonny banks of Florida. But unfortunately, a jolly philandering Glourie disgraced himself two centuries before, and was doomed to haunt the castle to take revenge on the enemy...