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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Joan Bennett, who is 21, blonde, green-eyed, 110 lb., 5 ft. 3 in., divorced (from John Martin Fox, son of a Seattle lumberman), has a three-year-old daughter named Adrienne...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 29, 1932 | 2/29/1932 | See Source »

...pronoun can therefore be construed as an especially devious example of the skill with which the cinema defends its patrons from their own prurience. In his other improvements on the Akins play, Producer Goldwyn was guided less by a sense of decency than a sense of decoration. Ina Claire, Joan Blondell and Madge Evans are even more alluring than the ladies who occupied their roles in the theatre. Their clothes were designed for them by Mile Gabrielle Chanel, who was summoned to Hollywood in person for the purpose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Greeks had a Word for Them | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...about as it was on the stage, except that Jean (Ina Claire) has been made more important than Polaire (Madge Evans). The picture starts when Jean returns from Europe, eager to make friends with money. Double-crossing her companions, she tries first to steal the aged "fiance" of Schatze (Joan Blondell), then appropriates a vain pianist who has taken a passing fancy to Polaire. Finally she meets the father of Polaire's most devoted admirer and in-veigles him into matrimony. There follows the one scene in which the cinema does not quite measure up to the play; namely...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The Greeks had a Word for Them | 2/15/1932 | See Source »

...that, too, England has a medi cine. Last week the country knew that the Ministry of Labor was keeping 175,000 of the 2,600,000 dole-drawers busy for three-to-six month periods in "reconditioning camps." Joan Fry Lakeman, famed tennist. was directing a Society of Friends program which would furnish gar den plots, seeds, tools to another...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Seed for the Sodden | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

Prompted, doubtless, by recent activities of Clark Gable and James Cagney, Fairbanks speaks rudely to Joan Blondell. At one point he fetches her a light clip on the jaw. Though Authors Kubec Glasmon and John Bright wrote dialog in their own idiom, the original authors, Gene Fowler and Joe Laurie Jr., were obviously thinking of Grand Hotel and possibly Transatlantic. But the cinema?artistically at least?is a good borrower and the fact is that stories in the pattern of Grand Hotel, Transatlantic, Union Depot are magnificently suited to cinematic 'expression. Fast, brief, unlikely and compact, this one is almost...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Jan. 25, 1932 | 1/25/1932 | See Source »

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