Word: korda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...London, where she is currently making Knight Without Armor for Alexander Korda, she last month went to the premiere of Romeo and Juliet with Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Police were called in to quiet the mob. as they had been at two previous openings she attended. Film technicians speak of her knowledge of photography. On the set, she is good-humored, assiduous. In Knight Without Armor occurs a bathtub scene. While it was being made one day (in England), she slipped, sprawled, spread-eagled naked before the camera crew. Everyone was flustered except Dietrich. She laughed, picked herself up, popped back...
Directed by Jacques Feyder, who will make Marlene Dietrich's forthcoming Knight Without: Armor for Alexander Korda,La Kermesse Héroïque explodes the theory that Rene Clair has a monopoly on urbane comedy in the French cinema. It is as sly a farce as any that has ever led a U. S. censor board to mistake good manners for innocent intentions. Produced at a cost of $850,000-fabulous for a French cinema-and magnificently set by Lazare Meerson, it was distinguished abroad by winning the grand Prix du Cinema Français, being banned...
Nine Days a Queen (Gaumont British) is a sequel to Alexander Korda's famed The Private Life of Henry VIII, so close in general merit to its predecessor, that there seems no reason why the story cannot keep on chronologically up to and including Edward VIII. The royal panorama starts with Henry VIII (Frank Cellier) on his deathbed, cursing his courtiers and appointing his successor. Most formidable source of royal acrimony is Warwick (Cedric Hardwicke), "a man without conscience and without fear," who becomes the power behind the new throne. He does this by setting his rivals at sword...
...Sales Manager Al Lichtman was moved up to president, speedily quarreled with Producer Sam Goldwyn over the marketing of Barbary Coast, resigned. Prima Donna Mary Pickford took over as provisional president. Last week United Artists owners-Miss Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Goldwyn, Charles Chaplin and British Producer Alexander Korda's delegate, Murray Silverstone-sat down in Hollywood to pick a boss. Favored candidates were Pickford and Silverstone. Instead the owners elected Dr. Attilio Henry Giannini...
Before starting on Things to Come, the salient production weakness of London Films had been technical. For this picture, which was made before the Denham studios were ready to function, Producer Korda installed a "Special Effects Department" under Ned Mann. More astounding than the gigantic outdoor sets constructed under Art Director Vincent Korda were Mr. Mann's miniatures: a space gun 20 feet high (see cut) with tiny puppets running around it on moving belts; bat-shaped airplanes apparently capable of carrying armies; a sky-darkening air-force swooping over the Dover Cliffs...