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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Between them, these collaborators tell the story of the Spanish revolution in terms of people rather than in terms of action. Not since the silent French film, The Passion of Joan of Arc, has such dramatic use been made of the human face. As face after face looks out from the screen the picture becomes a sort of portfolio of portraits of the human soul in the presence of disaster and distress. There are the earnest faces of speakers at meetings and in the village talking war, exhorting the defense. There are faces of old women moved from their homes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Aug. 23, 1937 | 8/23/1937 | See Source »

...that no cinemactor who was an Equity member could remain in good Equity standing unless he joined the cinema Guild." By last spring Screen Actors Guild, now 10,000 strong and thoroughly publicity-wise through the leadership of such luminaries as Robert Montgomery (Guild president) and Franchot & Joan Tone, had little need for Equity support when it wrung a 90% closed shop from Hollywood producers. President Gillmore's consolation was a sketchy group of radio performers which Equity still kept under its thumb. I Last week the actors in this quiet little drama emerged from the wings to play...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: One Big Union | 8/9/1937 | See Source »

Bankrupt-Actor Richard Bennett, father of Actresses Barbara, Constance and Joan; by voluntary petition, listing no assets, liabilities of $6,157, largest of which is an $800 chattel mortgage on his auto held by Daughter Joan; in Manhattan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Aug. 2, 1937 | 8/2/1937 | See Source »

...baby was born, was adopted by the grandparents and named Mary Joan Gibson. She died at the age of twelve days of bleeding at the navel. Her father went to Sing Sing; her mother married Walter Mitchell Schubert in 1936; her grandparents, dropped out of the Social Register, remained at "Tappancroft," their integrity and independence intact (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Individualist's Cows | 7/12/1937 | See Source »

...loudly to dare him to get out of bed. Once up, he joins a gang of ditchdiggers on a dare, swings pick & shovel in white tie and tails with Jasper in anguished attendance (see cut). He is dared to run for mayor by the incumbent's daughter Trudy (Joan Fontaine). Thereupon ensues a harmless set of political antics, most notable consequence of which is that Playboy Jimmy is finally dared to kiss Trudy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 5, 1937 | 7/5/1937 | See Source »

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