Word: joans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...each other to make sure the actors earn their salaries. Greta Garbo (MGM), who was planning to retire until last fortnight when she was reported to have lost $1,000,000 in the failure of the First National Bank of Beverly Hills, may make a picture for Paramount. Joan Crawford (MGM) last week finished Rain for United Artists. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will lend Clark Gable to Paramount in exchange for Fredric March. Warner Brothers may return Ruth Chatterton for one picture to Paramount, whence they lured her last year. Universal will lend Lew Ayres to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...Merrily We Go to Hell, the fact that the hero is a journalist is incidental to the plot. The picture, adapted from Cleo Lucas' novel I, Jerry, Take Thee, Joan, is a study of domestic relations rather than of an occupation. As such it is by no means novel but it is well plotted, brilliantly acted. Sylvia Sidney has an extraordinary way of making audiences believe that she is ecstatically happy. She does it with a thoughtful, crooked smile and a small chuckle. Her pleasant state of mind is credible in this picture even when March, who has lost...
...Joan Crawford is the candid gold digger in the piece, and Clark Gable her only visible means of support. They manage to keep most of the honors to themselves as they trudge through several thousand feet of film which broke at odd intervals throughout the evening. Clark it seems had had an unlucky break in his first marriage so, although he loved Joan very much and she loved him, he would not run the risk of a second flasco. They therefore settle upon a very satisfactory, if unoriginal method of solving what, save in Hollywood, is a very perplexing problem...
From Far Western points one group of marchers passed through Chicago. With them was a Mrs. Vera Perata, wife & mother, in the character of "Depression Joan...