Word: lyda
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bland, competent Jewish Jack Pearl (German-American comic), works hard for laughs,leads around a small,bewildered dachshund, tumbles about the stage with Lyda Roberti. Like Funnyman Ed Wynn, Mr. Pearl will close his show one night a week for radio broadcasting. Meritorious are Carl Randall and Barbara Newberry who, while dancing in an easy, effortless manner, delight everybody by doing tricks with thimbles. Best tunes: "My Cousin in Milwaukee"; "Where...
...comes when a bull, not the mild educated one that he expects, but a monstrous angry black one named Diablo, pursues Cantor about the ring and then into the aisles, loping lightly over a high fence. Cantor chloroforms the bull, climbs into a box seat for a duet with Lyda Roberti. She is a Senorita Rosalie whose friend Anita (Ruth Hall) admires Cantor's friend Ricardo (Robert Young...
Based on the premise that "Hit's the rich what gets the pleasure, hit's the poor what gets the blime," Chrysalis moves rapidly through 16 cinematographic scenes of the high and low life of Manhattan. Lyda Cose and Don Ellis, a pair of rich and vicious flibbertigibbets, meet Eve Haron and Honey Rogers, a miniature crime wave, in a sordid resort. Lyda and Don are carrying on a puny little affair, are attracted to Eve and Honey because, although they may not be good citizens, they appear to love each other very dearly ?so dearly, in fact, that...
Million Dollar Legs (Paramount) is a Marx brothers comedy without the Marx Brothers. Instead it has Jack Oakie, W. C. Fields, Ben Turpin, Lyda Roberti and an attractive ingénue named Susan Fleming to play opposite Oakie. William Claude Fields is the President of a place called Klopstokia, a small and ludicrous country in which all the citizens are adept at running, jumping, diving and lifting weights. If all the athletes in Klopstokia lay end to end they would reach 432 miles. Angela (Susan Fleming) tells Migg Tweeny (Jack Oakie) that she is sure of this because the athletes...
...Klopstokia, Migg Tweeny, visiting the country in the capacity of brush salesman, decides to take its amazingly able-bodied citizenry to Los Angeles. His plans to win all the events in the Olympics are impeded somewhat by a spy, in league with the cabinet members. She, Mata Machree (Lyda Roberti), makes friends with all the members of the team and causes them to squabble with each other. It looks as if Klopstokia may lose after all until W. C. Fields begins lifting weights. He loses his temper while doing so. This causes him to raise a 1,000 Ib. lump...