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...Female" has done even worse by Claudette Colbert in her latest vehicle. But don't let the tittle scare you away from "She Married Her Boss." In it Miss Colbert demonstrates once again that she is the first comedy actress of the screen, and she gets able support from Melvyn Douglas and the rest of the cast...

Author: By E. W. R., | Title: The Moviegoer | 12/2/1935 | See Source »

...escape, bullied into a false confession, sent to prison. To trap Baxter the G-men rig up an elaborate escape for Miss Sidney, shadow her every move. The infatuated public enemy manages to harass her while eluding his pursuers and robbing a football stadium, almost ruins her romance with Melvyn Douglas before he is shot. For cinemaddicts who are not ruffled by uneven pacing and exaggerated detail, Mary Burns, Fugitive has enough taut sequences to be entertaining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Zanuck's Start | 11/25/1935 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CALIFORNIA: Chains | 7/29/1935 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 5, 1934 | 2/5/1934 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Nov. 7, 1932 | 11/7/1932 | See Source »

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