Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...well known as I am, I don't ask to see a part before I take it. I take what I'm given and do the best I can." She believes in astrology, dislikes flappers, lives in the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles. Recently Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer made her a star. Her next picture will be The Dark Star...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This fragile but witty drawing room piece, successful on the Manhattan stage last year, is the sort of thing that the talking cinema in its present stage of development can do best. No Hollywood hack writing has been permitted to change the thread of the story, although the prelude of unhappy married life has been elaborated. Norma Shearer takes two parts-first a dowdy wife whose husband is tiring of her, and later, with an astonishing and somewhat overdramatic change in personality, a seductive divorcee. At a house-party given by an elderly woman...
Author Jacques Deval, 37, Parisian, is in Hollywood superintending French talkies for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This is his third trip to the U. S. Of himself, he-says: "I am not a humorist. I am a merry pessimist." He has written several plays, of which one, Her Cardboard Lover, has been produced...
...Unholy Three (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When released as a silent picture in 1923, this film had a quality of strained and macabre horror which was largely dependent on the fact that none of the participants in its gruesome goings-on was able to make himself heard. No voice, it was well understood, could be so wheedling as the voice which one imagined would be used by Mrs. O'Grady, the keeper of a petshop, who was really a man and the leader of a band of thieves. Her grandson, whom customers observed cuddled up in a perambulator, was really...
...Lady of Scandal (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When a good play is turned into a picture by the photographing of its acts, scene by scene, it loses more than the artifice of flesh and blood. Its framework stiffens. Graces that shone brilliantly behind the footlights seem antiquated in the more fluid form for which they were not intended. This comedy of Lonsdale's, The High Road, is not really oldfashioned. Its situation-the consternation of an English family when faced with the possible marriage of one of its scions with a Gaiety-girl-is ingeniously handled. Ruth Chatterton and Basil...