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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ninotchka (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) reveals the moral, political and sartorial bankruptcy that ensues when a female Bolshevik is exposed to the bourgeois perils of running water, Melvyn Douglas and Paris. Unlike most pictures about Russian Reds, this one is neither crude clowning nor crude prejudice, but a literate and knowingly directed satire which lands many a shrewd crack about phony Five Year Plans, collective farms, Communist jargon and pseudo-scientific gab where it will do the most good-on the funny bone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

...room in the hotel" when Moscow sends Ninotchka (Greta Garbo) to check up. She is an unsmiling young Russian, with a delightful Swedish accent, who announces that love is a chemical reaction, wants to know at once how much steel the Eiffel Tower contains. At Count Leon's (Melvyn Douglas) smart bachelor apartment, Ninotchka shocks his staid old butler by asking, "Does he beat you?" and by urging that all wealth be shared equally. As the butler indignantly refuses to share his lifetime savings with his bankrupt employer, she says: "Run along to bed, little father." When the Count...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 6, 1939 | 11/6/1939 | See Source »

Tell No Tales (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A fine Negro wake and a good bit by Gene Lockhart as a gambler, stuck in a stale story about a crusading editor (Melvyn Douglas) who confounds the underworld...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 6/5/1939 | See Source »

...pulp magazines, who writes under the false-whiskery pen name of Marco Page and the influence of Dashiell Hammett. His characters first appeared last spring in a spade-calling mystery novel, Fast Company, in which the main victim was poetically conked with a bust of Dante. Last summer Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice played them first for cinema in MGM's fumigated version. In Fast and Loose, Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell show up as the likeliest pretenders to the places of William Powell and Myrna Loy in The Thin Man tradition. For Fast and Loose, Author Kurnitz whipped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Feb. 27, 1939 | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

...five interesting people together in a single movie. This is the accomplishment of "The Shining Hour," now at the University, and even better, these interesting characters rise above the limitations of a trite triangle plot and become real, credible characters. They are Joan Crawford, nightclub dancer, who marries Melvyn Douglas, a member of the rich, aristocratic family of Lindens. Robert Young, in the process of trying to prevent the marriage, falls in love with Miss Crawford himself, much to the distress of his wife, Margaret Sullavan, and his sister, Fay Bainter. Outstanding is the script, which brightens what might have...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Moviegoer | 2/27/1939 | See Source »

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