Word: merkel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barbier), searching for a dummy candidate to run for mayor on a reform ticket. It seems to Boss Mayo and his cronies that Ezekiel Cobb is naïve enough for their purposes. When they nominate him, he wanders into a night club with a cigaret-counter girl (Una Merkel), attracts constituents, first by frolicking with chorus girls, then by defending a newsboy who has been mistreated by his rival candidate (Alan Dinehart...
Paris Interlude (MGM). The No. 2 heroine of this picture is a standard cut-out from all Hollywood's style sheets, the loyal girl friend. When in Paris Interlude, Julie (Madge Evans) gets drunk in a saloon, Cassie (Una Merkel) helps her home. When Julie's boy friend Sam (Otto Kruger) flies off for China, Cassie comforts her. When Sam has been reported dead, Cassie tells Julie's nicest suitor (Robert Young) how best to further his cause. True to cinema type, Cassie talks tough and, has no male associates of her own. That...
...extra-legal matters also, Lawyer Barringer is no match for his cinema confrère. His office is less shiny, his secretary (Una Merkel) less mature, his scout and handy man (Raymond Hatton) less sly. For pleasure, Lawyer Simon likes a trip to Europe, but Lawyer Barringer goes to Miami, frequents greyhound races. Kruger acts as well as Barrymore but The Women in His Life lacks the cleverness and impact of Counsellor at Law. Good sound: Barringer's voice, hoarse with pneumonia and emotion, when he wakes up in a hospital after a drunken visit to the grave...
...this year's gaily bedecked Exposition opened at Chicago's Union Stock Yards last week, Gentleman Farmer Thorne was again on hand. So was last year's winner, Will Largent of Merkel, Tex., who raises Herefords. So was thin-faced Walter Biggar from Dalbeattie, Scotland, who has been judging the Exposition's champion steers for nine years. So were some 45,000 spectators daily who looked at some 13,500 animals on the hoof, largest assembly on record. A new corn king was crowned-C. Worth Holmes of Joy, Ill. A new wheat king was crowned...
Lola Jean Harlow Space Lee Tracy Pops Frank Morgan Gifford Middleton Franchot Tone Brogan Pat O'Brien Mac Una Merkel Junior Ted Healy...