Word: melvyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...watched a boat loading scrap iron for Japan. It occurred to him that it takes something besides bandages for China to fight scrap iron for Japan, and that the peaceful artisans of Hollywood have most to lose from the world rise of militarism and dictatorship. He talked with Actors Melvyn Douglas and Edward G. Robinson. They all talked with Clark Eichelberger, a League of Nations advocate and chairman of the Committee for Concerted Peace Efforts. After a series of parlor parleys in the best Hollywood manner, they emerged with a "Declaration of Democratic Independence," phrased with care not to desecrate...
...murder mystery, and Maxine Sullivan singing "Mutiny in the Nursery;"--that is the dish the University is serving up today and tomorrow. In its serious moments, except for a rendition of Wagner's "Tannhauser," it is very poor; in its humorous ones, excellent. "There's That Woman Again," with Melvyn Douglas and Virginia Bruce, pretends to be a detective story, with domestic trimmings; but the director, realizing that his "mystery" was as transparent as the glass doors in the Douglas-Bruce apartment, threw the emphasis on the humorous side, and especially on the marital quarrels between the two leads...
...BRUNO FRANK, MELVYN DOUGLAS, HARLAN THOMPSON, FRANK TUTTLE, GROUCHO MARX, DONALD OGDEN STEWART, GALE SONDERGAARD, BORIS MORROS...
...Shining Hour (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Triangle drama, recklessly adapted from Keith Winter's play, about a cabaret dancer (Joan Crawford) who marries an aristocrat (Melvyn Douglas) and falls in love with his brother (Robert Young...
...which makes for smooth, leisurely exposition. More important than all this, however, it has that great, single asset of any picture: Deanna Durbin's voice. Better than ever before, especially in the higher ranges, it renders both opera and "A Bicycle Built For Two" with equally charming, careless abandon. Melvyn Douglas, as the unwitting object of Deanna's "eternal" devotion, and Jackie Cooper, as the patient, long-suffering true love, are also good in their less important roles...