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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last March a London jury decided that the Princess deserved $125,000 from MGM because the cinema Rasputin and the Empress showed a "Princess Natasha" being raped by the Mad Monk of the Russian court (TIME, March 12). Princess Irina had only one connecting link with Rasputin: her husband had helped to murder him on the night...
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...
...Kruger, the most bedridden leading man in Hollywood, croaks through his pillowcase, Edward Brophy shuffles through the role of a disheveled newshawk and Madge Evans gives one more of the ingratiating performances which have lately made her the busiest ingenue in Hollywood. Good sequence: a fashion show, designed by MGM's famed Gilbert Adrian...
...Madge Evans tried a come-back with Richard Barthelmess in Classmates. When it failed, she got William A. Brady to help her get stage parts. She was playing in George Kelly's Philip Goes Forth when MGM used her as background in a screen test for another actor in the cast. The test came out so well she got a contract. After her teeth had been straightened, her hair dyed and bobbed, she attained the distinction of being the only child actor to succeed in cinema as an adult...
...Clark Gable as Blackie Gallagher in MGM's Manhattan Melodrama (TIME, May 14) many a cinemaddict one night last week went to the Biograph Theatre on Chicago's North Side. One of them was a slight, dark-haired, harmless-looking little man in shirtsleeves, wearing a white hat and gold-rimmed spectacles. As he walked up to the box office, a man sitting in a parked car at the curb gave a start. Chief Investigator Melvin Purvis of the Department of Justice in Chicago had, for the first time in a four-month manhunt, clapped eyes on Desperado...