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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...favorite pastime of Steamship Magnate Bruce Vail (Colin Clive) is tormenting his wife (Jean Arthur). When she threatens to put an end to his diversion by divorce, he sends his chauffeur (Ivan Lebedeff) to her rooms, plans to trap her in the servant's arms, nullifying the divorce under the English statute that the complainant in such a suit must remain blameless during the six months between the provisional and final decrees. In the next room Paul Dumond (Charles Boyer) hears the fracas, ends it by knocking out the chauffeur. When the obsessed husband and his witness enter, Dumond...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Mar. 29, 1937 | 3/29/1937 | See Source »

Love on the Run (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Sally (Joan Crawford) is a fabulously rich U. S. heiress engaged to Igor (Ivan Lebedeff), fabulously torpid European fortune hunter. She leaves him waiting at the church to run off with Michael (Clark Gable), fabulously adroit U. S. reporter. After junketing in Europe by airplane, delivery truck and wheelbarrow, they spend a night in the palace at Fontainebleau. Michael then tells Sally simultaneously that 1) he loves her and 2) he has been using their escapade to make headlines in the U. S. Sally takes up with Michael's gullible rival reporter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 7, 1936 | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

...story which contains the one necessary new factor in the spy story formula. This factor consists in having two beautiful women both suspected of being spies. One of them, the heroine (Genevieve Tobin), proves to be innocent. The other (Betty Compson) is trapped by a handsome Rumanian officer (Ivan Lebedeff). The fact that Ivan Lebedeff speaks very poor English has been disguised by setting the action in Rumania which, with Bohemia, is usually selected as the mise en scene for cinemas in which the actors are linguistically deficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Oct. 19, 1931 | 10/19/1931 | See Source »

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