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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cinemactor Tracy made this picture before going to Mexico City where he made news resulting in the cancellation of his contract by MGM. To TIME'S version of the affair (TIME, Dec. 4), Mr. Tracy telegraphed a correction as follows: "YOUR STORY ON MEXICO INCIDENT INACCURATE AND UNTRUE STOP MY REPUTATION HAS BEEN DAMAGED BY A FALSE CHARGE IN YOUR PUBLICATION STOP PUBLIC HAD BEEN GIVEN TRUE AND CORRECTED VERSION AND NOW YOUR LIBELOUS STORY OVERSHADOWS ALL PREVIOUS ONES STOP I REFER YOU TO LOS ANGELES TIMES OF DEC. 3 WHICH CLIMAXES ALL VERSIONS AND GIVES TRUE...
Married. Harlean Carpenter McGrew Bern (Jean Harlow), 22, cinemactress, widow of MGM's Associate Producer Paul Bern Levy who last year spectacularly died by his own hand (TIME, Sept. 19, 1932); and Harold G. Rosson, cameraman; in Yuma, Ariz...
Broadway to Hollywood (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Five years ago, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer made an expensive musicomedy called The March of Time, decided it was not worth releasing but a shade too good to shelve.* After endless ineffective tinkering, Willard Mack and Edgar Allan Woolf rewrote the story. MGM selected a new cast. Broadway to Hollywood is the result. The few remaining shots from the old film-a technicolor ballet executing a blurred march down an exaggerated stairway-might better have been left out. Based upon the tedious conviction that there is nothing quite eo glamorous as a vaudeville actor...
...with Grand Hotel, a fashionable dinner party is ideal. As a frame for one of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's all-star casts, the play by Edna Ferber and George Kaufman which was produced in Manhattan last winter was even better. The actors in Dinner at Eight selected by MGM's new producer David Selznick, make the cast of MGM's Grand Hotel, produced by Irving Thalberg, look like a road company, make the picture-less biting but more comprehensive than the play-superb entertainment. Under Director George Cukor, John Barrymore (Larry Renault), Lionel Barrymore (Oliver Jordan), Marie...
Cinemas in which Marie Dressier plays the lead have one quality in common-the heroine is a raffish, vigorous old woman whose generous heart thumps under sleazy clothes that do not fit her. Tugboat Annie (MGM) is not merely a typical Marie Dressier picture; it crowns all her previous works because its heroine is even more raffish, kindly, troubled, brave and energetic than the heroines of Min and Bill, Emma, Politics or Prosperity. She is Annie Brennan, whose three excitements are her mischievously drunken husband Terry (Wallace Beery), her handsome, respectable son Alec (Robert Young) and her dilapidated tugboat...