Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Madam Satan (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is the most interesting picture of the week because it revives a tradition that was once very important to the business...
...Call of the Flesh (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A few years ago this kind of story was handled in pictures with a mawkish solemnity that made it unbearable. It is built around a laugh-clown-laugh sequence in which a young Spanish singer, his heart broken when his sweetheart is taken away from him, outdoes himself as Canio in Pagliacci. Yet so skillful are detail, dialog, direction that the spectator is never concerned with the values of the plot as realism. Modern sound technique has transformed the old romantic design into a highly successful and credible operetta. Novarro sings Spanish folk...
Born. To Irving Grant Thalberg, an executive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Stu- dios, and Cinemactress Norma Shearer; at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles; a boy. Weight...
Romance (Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer). Here is Greta Garbo postured superbly against the brownstone elegance of Manhattan 30 years ago-Garbo in Watteau hats and waisted dresses which perfectly become both her figure and the gracefully nostalgic story of a forfeited love. It is Edward Sheldon's old play in which Doris Keane starred for so long on the stage, an adaptation arranged in flashbacks, directed by Clarence Brown, with Lewis Stone as the middle-aged lover to whom Garbo returns after an interlude with a clergyman. For some reason the script makes her an Italian soprano. This detail, superficial...
Every year Film Daily asks cinema critics to pick the ten directors they liked best. Last week the last ballot was counted. Elections: 1) Alfred E. Green of Warner (Disraeli, The Green Goddess, The Man from Blankley's); 2) King Vidor of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Hallelujah, Not So Dumb); 3) Clarence Brown of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Anna Christie, Wonder of Women) ; 4) Lionel Barrymore of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Madame X, His Glorious Night). Others: Ernst Lubitsch, Roy Del Ruth, Herbert Brenon, James Whale, Frank Lloyd, Sidney Franklin. Good directors not placed: Raoul Walsh, Dorothy Arzner, Edmund Goulding, Frank Borzage...