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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bobby Jones's first picture, The Putter, was released by Warner last week. With Golfing Actors Richard Barthelmess and Frank Craven, Jones explains how to putt. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will make other sport shorts, including one of track games featuring Frank Wykoff, famed sprinter. To Helen Wills Moody has been offered, it is rumored, a $150,000 contract...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Planning Season | 5/11/1931 | See Source »

...Tailor Made Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). William Haines is one of those actors who have committed themselves to a specialty and are obliged to stick to it. The story, selected because it was in the Haines formula, is the old one about the pants presser who starts on his way to success by stealing a customer's dress suit and wearing it to a party. He is in love with his boss's daughter, Dorothy Jordan. When he has abruptly achieved eminence as manager of a department store, a job given him by a millionaire whom his social...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: May 4, 1931 | 5/4/1931 | See Source »

Strangers May Kiss (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is one of those handsomely staged, well-acted, rather silly productions which confound critics who try to reveal their silliness. The story is by Ursula Parrott, author of famed Ex-Wife; it will probably gross several million dollars. Norma Shearer is a working girl who says, "A girl may kiss and ride on as well as any man." Yet when Neil Hamilton, her journalist lover, companion of an illicit weekend in Mexico, says a casual goodbye to her, she is seen in one of those rapid sequences indicating a shattering of feminine morale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Apr. 20, 1931 | 4/20/1931 | See Source »

Inspiration (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The decadent, artificial perfume which, springing from La Dame Aux Camelias, saturated with its nostalgia the boudoir literature of four decades, is revived strongly for Greta Garbo's third talking picture. She is a studio model, mistress of many men, who falls in love with a colorless young socialite. Robert Montgomery leaves her when he finds out about her bygone irregularities, but after a break he takes her back again. When his family decides that it is time for him to marry, Garbo goes away. The way this tale is told...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 16, 1931 | 2/16/1931 | See Source »

...Bachelor Father (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A bachelor, lonely in his old age, invites his illegitimate children of various nationalities to come and live with him. One of them-the one he feels is most like him-turns out to be not his daughter after all. Such components were all right when Belasco produced The Bachelor Father on Broadway but they offered a grave moral problem to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. That great organization rose brilliantly to the emergency, however; they changed the bachelor into a married man. The comedy has lost some of its pace, but the circumloquacious dialog...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 9, 1931 | 2/9/1931 | See Source »

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