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Masquerade in Vienna (George Kraska) is based upon an episode in the life of Franz von Reznicek, who was the Peter Arno of Austria 40 years ago. Made in Europe in 1934, the film was bought by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and reproduced completely year and a half ago as Escapade, with Luise Rainer in the lead. So good was MGM's job that Actress Rainer was catapulted to Hollywood stardom. Meanwhile the original cinema was winning acclaim in Europe. Last week, with Escapade well out of the way, MGM allowed the original Masquerade in Vienna to appear...
...People (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Lawyer Jack Moreno (Joseph Calleia) finds, soon after hanging out his shingle, that a successful criminal practice is impossible for him without the aid of the town's boss, Grady (Thomas Mitchell). After a succession of legal shellackings he talks business with Grady. But Moreno soon gets too big for Grady's taste and when the time comes to pick a new District Attorney, Moreno is cashiered. His fighting failure brings him to the attention of the Governor, who appoints him special investigator of some cases involving illegal stock promotion. Moreno pursues his investigation...
Married. Howard Dietz, 40, advertising & publicity director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, librettist (Three's a Crowd, Flying Colors); and Mrs. Tanis Guinness Montagu, 28, heiress to an Irish brewing fortune ("Guinness Is Good For You"), who two months ago jilted the Earl of Carnarvon; at Juarez, Mexico. Both were previously divorced...
...Camille (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). For this version of Alexandre Dumas' famed tearjerker, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer assembled the three best current writers of tearjerkers, the top director of tearjerkers, the screen's No. i tragedienne and the industry's current male box-office sensation. The result, against the lush background of Art Director Cedric Gibbons' notion of 19th Century Paris, equipped with generous measures of sorrow, pictorial beauty, charm, plot, glamour and audience appeal, amounts to a Camillennium...
After the Thin Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) avoids the pitfall of most sequels, that of seeming a weak copy of the original, by being so much like its original that only experts in Dashiell Hammett plots will be able to tell the difference. In this picture, Asta. Detective Nick Charles's wire-haired terrier, has a mate, and the scene of operations is San Francisco instead of New York. In other respects, Mr. & Mrs. Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy) maintain unchanged the amiably frantic domesticity which, in The Thin Man, set the style for detective cinema...