Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...other. Accordingly last week in Paris gathered delegates to an historic cinema conference. Present were representatives of the great U. S. and German concerns interested in talkie patents-John Edward Otterson of Electrical Research Products Co., Inc., Charles J. Ross, John Cecil Graham representing Paramount, United Artists, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Pathe, Radio Corp., George E. Quigley of Warner Bros. They settled down to debate their problems amicably until they decide whether to make an agreement or start a trade war. Will Hays, on the motion of Dr. Curt Sobernheim, general manager of the Commerz-und Privat-Bank of Berlin...
...Floradora Girl (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is a brilliant, animated cartoon of the fashions of the Mauve Decade?a cartoon brought to life by the comic playing of Marion Davies and built around an effervescing, satirical story...
...citizens to enjoy years of leisure.* Sample of California's growth: Beverly Hills, picturesquely perched above Los Angeles, from 674 in 1920 to 17,428 in 1930, a gain of 2,485%. Some Beverly Hillers: Funnyman Will Rogers, Cinemactors Fairbanks, Barrymore, Gilbert, Mix, Lloyd, Cinemactresses Pickford, Davies. Cinemakers Laemmle, Mayer, Lasky, De Mille...
...Divorcee (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Whether the success of Ex-Wife, the novel from which this picture is adapted, was due to its frankness on sex, or to a certain distinct and half-naive pathos in its sophisticated affectations, will make little difference to people who see The Divorcee. The film accurately reproduces all the qualities of the book, including its disorder and its occasional approach to burlesque, but Norma Shearer's beauty makes it worth watching in spite of mediocre dialog. It concerns a young couple whose happiness was disrupted because they had a habit of confessing their in fidelities...
Redemption (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is an ambitious version of Tolstoy's play about a man who redeemed himself spiritually by sacrificing everything, even life, to his inability to make decisions. Its intention is less to popularize Tolstoy than to strengthen the prestige of Actor John Gilbert, whose first talking picture, His Glorious Night, was a failure. Gilbert declaims Fedya in a resonant, hollow voice, giving in his best scenes a lively imitation of John Barrymore and in his worst a caricature of himself in those pictures in which he made his reputation as the Screen's Greatest Lover...