Word: muny
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aside from rather meaningless titles, the two films at Keith's Memorial this week-end present the best rounded twin bill we've witnessed this season. "The Woman I Love", starring Paul Muni and Miriam Hopkins, tells the story of the usual love triangle against a background of the front line trenches on the Soissons sector in 1917, while "We Have Our Moments", a gay and riotous farce of twenty years later, put the audience in giggles the moment the news reel before it subsided and left many in the aisles exhausted at the end of the hour...
...Paul Muni plays the role of an infantry officer turned aviator, but after losing several partners in battle he falls victim to the distrust of his squadron mates, who believe him jinxed. Louis Hayward, a fellow officer, strikes up a friendship with him and makes his machine gunner in several brilliant air-raids. Meanwhile, in Paris and at camp, Hayward has fallen in love with Miriam Hopkins, Muni's wife, and this time it's no design for living. A situation that sacrifices the friendship of the two men on the altar of a woman's love can only result...
Academy Awards are gold-plated statuets nicknamed Oscars. Oscar for the 1936 best performance by an actor went last week to Paul Muni, who attended the banquet wearing the beard he used in his forthcoming The Woman I Love. The award was for his work in the title role of The Story of Louis Pasteur. Screenwriters Sheridan Gibney and Pierre Collings, who wrote and adapted The Story of Louis Pasteur, got two Oscars, for the best original screen story and the best screen adaptation of the year. Oscar for the best direction of the year went to Frank Capra...
...career, that Generalissimo Franco had no designs on her. On other film figures, however, he frowned angrily last week, banned from White Spanish territory all films to which the following "radicals" have contributed: writers Upton Sinclair, Clifford Odets, Liam O'Flaherty, Dudley Nichols, Humphrey Cobb; screen stars Paul Muni and Luise Rainer; directors Lewis Milestone and Frank Tuttle; producer Kenneth Mac-Gowan. In reply last week, 98 U. S. writers signed a manifesto against General Franco. Declared they: "We cannot keep silent when war becomes a slaughter of the unarmed, the innocent and the helpless. . . . We condemn the deliberate...
...Good Earth's theme is the love of the Chinese peasant for his land and his dependence upon it. Most of its major scenes are plucked straight from the novel. On his wedding day, Wang Lung (Paul Muni), son of a poor farmer (Charles Grapewin), goes to the Great House to wed the bride that has been chosen for him. She is Olan (Luise Rainer), a meek, silent slave whose outward role is abnegation but whose soul is resolute. She is the pivot on which the picture turns. Hardly changing a facial muscle, in the two and a quarter...