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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Confession (Warner Bros.). A onetime gay Polish opera diva, Vera (Kay Francis) is so bereft when her husband Leonide. a nice fattish army officer (Ian Hunter), goes away to the War that she drinks too much at a wild Warsaw party given by her old trouper friends, passes out in the arms of Michael Michailow (Basil Rathbone), a melancholy musician perennially bent on seduction. When Leonide finds Vera in Michailow's apartment he jumps heavily at the worst conclusion, promptly divorces her and takes her baby daughter. Years later Daughter Lisa (Jane Bryan), fatherless now and unaware that Vera...
...sweetheart. Forthright little Mr. Berger plumped himself down into a seat and began to pluck feathers from the chicken's hind quarters, reciting, presumably: "She loves me, she loves me not," to the accompaniment of horrified squawks from the chicken. Presently a Brooklyn passenger named Kay Nelson protested to Mr. Berger. Mr. Berger reassured Mr. Nelson. Said he, "I am only taking off the feathers because I am going to eat this chicken when I get home. I was once a barber and an expert hairdresser and I know all about things like this. It is not hurting...
...first hit song Swanee which sold 2,250,000 Victrola records. From 1920 to 1924 he wrote the music for George White's Scandals. The Astaires danced to his Our Nell, Sweet Little Devil, Lady Be Good! From hit shows like Stop Flirting, Primrose, Rainbow, Oh Kay, Funny Face, Strike Up the Band and Girl Crazy, Gershwin became a rich man, filled his penthouse with expensive furniture, African sculpture, a Mustel pipe organ, a fine collection of French moderns. George Gershwin had time and inclination for serious work. In 1923 he wrote his Rhapsody in Blue for Paul Whiteman...
...Cinemactress Davies has made since Hearst's Cosmopolitan Productions moved to their studio from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1935, Warner Brothers have announced no Davies pictures on their schedule for next year. Cosmopolitan Productions has announced no new affiliation. Another Dawn (Warner). First love of dreamy Julia Ashton (Kay Francis) is an aviator who disappears at sea. That loss she mourns until she meets and marries Colonel John Wister (Ian Hunter), who takes her back to his small British Army post in central Arabia. Second in command is Captain Denny Roark (Errol Flynn) for whom, as cinemaddicts will easily...
...result successfully combines the current vogue for mildly lunatic comedy with the pure visual satisfaction of importations like Du World's The Bine Light, H. R. Sokal's Slalom. Best small part: George Davis as a Swiss sleigh driver who, with the same impenetrable calm, drives Kay to the hotel when she arrives, rescues her when she plunges into a snowbank on skis, drives her to the station when she leaves...