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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Single Standard (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Greta Garbo usually manages to make her roles real no matter how badly written they are. This story about a fashionable woman who insists on the right to make her own mistakes is better than most of such stories. The idea out of which grow its romantic, typically cinematic situations is also the basis of a moment of drama. Greta Garbo has had a love-affair with her chauffeur who committed suicide because he was afraid of spoiling her life. Then she runs away with a painter and has a fine time sailing around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 12, 1929 | 8/12/1929 | See Source »

Wonder of Women (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). By thoughtful creation of character this film avoids being a restatement of one of the standard generalities about people with artistic temperament. It is adapted from Sudermann's The Wife of Stephen Tromholt and the outlines of the original story, even its tragic ending, have been intelligently adhered to. Lewis Stone is the composer who marries a poor widow with three children and who sticks to her in spite of his attraction to a younger woman. Peggy Wood is his wife. Stone leaves her once, then comes home, acknowledges his responsibility. Five years later...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Aug. 5, 1929 | 8/5/1929 | See Source »

William Fox, cineman, was hurrying out Long Island to keep golf appointment with Cinemen Adolph Zukor (Par-amount-Famous-Lasky) and Nicholas Schenck (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), and Cinemactor Thomas Meighan, when his Rolls-Royce collided with a car driven by a Miss Dorothy Kane, overturned, killed the Fox chauffeur, injured Cineman Fox badly. A blood transfusion (one pint) was administered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 29, 1929 | 7/29/1929 | See Source »

...without having stopped enjoying it. Director Bretherton arranged the story very smoothly. Betty Compson, and an unknown, dark-haired young man named Grant Withers play opposite each other. Assorted sound-shots: a crowd at a football game, a college dance where everyone sings, a stock ticker. Thunder (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Lined and grey, smeared with oil, misty with sentiment under its visored cap, the face at the window of the enginecab is Lon Chaney's. Coincidence turns the wheels. The engineer has two sons. One of them is killed. Lon Chaney, driving the train carrying the body to Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures Jul. 22, 1929 | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

...that members of the Comédie Française were to make talking cinemas for U. S. producers. French cinema exhibitors worried more over the news that all representatives of U. S. producer-members (Paramount-Famous-Lasky, Warner Bros., Fox, United Artists, Universal, Radio-Keith-Orpheum, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) of the Cinema Syndicate de France were resigning in protest over the new French law, effective in September, limiting the importation of foreign-produced films to four for each French film exported...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Radio into Talkies | 7/15/1929 | See Source »

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