Word: melvyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill. All California's frantic energies were concentrated on getting Governor Frank Merriam to sign or to veto. A hundred chain store men, 900 independents, with bands, banners, slogans marched on Sacramento, packed the Assembly chamber, booed and shouted when the Governor held public hearings. Progressive Republican Assemblyman Melvyn Cronin demanded acceptance of the bill to stop the centralization of wealth, prevent the destruction of independents, save the State from wage slavery, keep open for posterity the road of opportunity. John Francis Neylan, Hearst lawyer, trumpeted the counterblast: confiscation, a 10% boost in food prices for those least able...
After two somnolent years in Hollywood as an unobtrusive background for cinema celebrities, blond Melvyn Douglas returns to do a lifelike job as sleek, rich Sheridan Warren. He and capricious Marcia Townsend (Ruth Weston) decide, with explicit misgivings, to get married. Before long he is up to his old tricks with a nightclub charmer, ingenuously informs his wife of the fact. Marcia vindictively arranges a weekend party composed of 1) the nightclub charmer; 2) an ex-mistress of Warren's whom he has fobbed off on a fortune-hunting Briton; 3) the Briton; 4) the ex-mistress...
...musty doorbell in the hope of finding shelter from a thunderstorm. The door is opened by a butler (Boris Karloff) whose hair is unbrushed but whose face looks as though he had combed it with a threshing machine. In the old dark house, the motorists (Raymond Massey, Gloria Stuart, Melvyn Douglas) are insulted by their hosts, a family of Femms who are living in seclusion to avoid being hanged for murder. While the Femms and their guests are dining on cold roast beef, boiled potatoes and stale bread, more motorists arrive, a Welsh millionaire (Charles Laughton) and his tricky mistress...
...Theatre, longtime manager of stock companies in Detroit, Buffalo, Toronto, Rochester (N. Y.), Northampton (Mass.) and Providence (R. I); of heart trouble; in Detroit. Stars she trained: Katharine Cornell, Ann Harding, William Powell, Katherine Alexander. Rollo Peters, Earle Larrimore, Joan Lowell, Ralph Morgan, Frank Morgan, Ben Lyon. Kenneth McKenna, Melvyn Douglas, Jessie Royce Landis, Minor Watson...
Prestige (RKO-Pathe) is a tedious hyperbole concerned with Army life in an Indo-Chinese penal colony. Ann Harding suffers the difficulties customary for heroines so situated: her husband (Melvyn Douglas) in his own phrase is "going to pieces." A Negro minion kills the admirer (Adolphe Menjou) with whom she endeavors to escape to Paris. There follows a prison riot in which Douglas redeems his prestige by switching his rebellious charges with a stock-whip. Good shot: the Negro servant looking mournfully at Ann Harding after he has murdered Menjou...