Word: muni
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nellie (Warner). Last year newspaper pictures were about Broadway columnists. This winter they are about city room celebrities demoted to writing advice to the lovelorn. Part comedy, part melodrama, Hi, Nellie shows how Bradshaw (Paul Muni) retrieves his city editorship by digging up the inside story on a vanished judge whose corpse he finds in a graveyard where it was placed by gangsters...
Adapted by Aben Finkel and Sidney Sutherland, two able ex-journalist scenarists, directed by Mervyn LeRoy and acted, with characteristic authority, by Paul Muni, it would be rational to expect Hi, Nellie to be plausible. Instead it is another anthology of expletive improbabilities. The city room of the Times-Star is conducted as though it were a day nursery. The girl (Glenda Farrell) who precedes Bradshaw as "Nellie Nelson" is overfond of inelegant cliches like "So you can't take it." When Bradshaw sits down to write a column, he does it with one sheet of paper...
Aside from her interest in the stage, which is her life's work, Miss Brice confessed a weakness for wandering through antique stores and in her spare time she loves to go fishing. Her favorite actors, both on the stage and screen, are Paul Muni and Helen Hayes, and although she hasn't much to do with pictures she has lots of friends in Hollywood...
...suicide because he learns that his wife is misbehaving. Mean Mrs. Nordholm calls up her lover but he is too distressed by losses to aid in her crisis. Uncle Nordholm gets drunker than usual and insults a prelate. To top it all, the whole affair reminds Grandfather Nordholm (Paul Muni) of the day his wife went crazy so he dies also, of a heart attack...
...Fugitive From a Chain Gang (Warner). When he gets back from the War, Sergeant James Allen (Paul Muni) is too ambitious to go back to his old job in a shoe factory. He wants to be a construction engineer and sets out to look for a job. His luck is bad. One night he finds himself in a lunchroom with a tramp who points a gun at the proprietor and orders Allen to open the cash register. When police arrive, they kill the tramp and hold Allen for robbery. He is sentenced to ten years at hard labor...