Word: markey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fully as creditably as John Barrymore, his cinema predecessor. The only serious bit of miscasting in The Hound of the Baskervilles is in the title role. The proper selection, obviously, would have been a calf-sized Norwegian elkhound; equipped with fright wig and false fangs. Instead, Associate Producer Gene Markey, perhaps in the delightful confusion attendant on his recent marriage to Hedy Lamarr, put his O.K. on a friendly old Great Dane named Chief, who, despite all his yelpings, cannot even make his bark seem worse than his bite...
Married. Hedy Lamarr (real name: Hedy Kiesler Mandl), 24, sultry Viennese cinemactress (Extase, Algiers'); and Gene Markey, 43, cinema producer; both for the second time; in Mexicali, Lower Calif...
...certain slaughter. When Old Boots ignored the volleys of the hillmen to stalk up alone for a confab, the Khan changed his mind about the slaughter. Wee Willie Winkie is a craftsman's picture which is also, surpassingly, an audience's picture. To able Associate Producer Gene Markey goes credit for seeing how the suggestions implicit in the Kipling fragment could be nursed into an epic; to able Director John Ford (The Informer), responsibility for the picture's pace, its sustained adventurous mood, its accumulation of memorable physical details; to Actors C. Aubrey Smith and Victor McLaglen...
Gaumont-British stoutly maintains that Love in Exile was adapted from Gene Markey's story His Majesty's Pyjamas, was made long before the producers heard of Mrs. Simpson. Aside from its topical interest, it is merely a mediocre melodrama...
...thing the trade knew, Rube Goldberg was working up a new feature whose principal character, a fat female clown, was christened Lala Palooza after consultation with Yale's Pundit William Lyon Phelps. By last week, with 75 papers signed up* by a new syndicate headed by Frank Jay Markey, it was evident that editors expected from the new Goldbergian feature the old Goldbergian...