Word: myrna
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plays it coolly and shrewdly but somehow never quite pulls the picture into perfect focus. Partly because the acting and camera work are splendid and partly because it is a sincere effort to investigate an engrossing subject, Night Flight remains an exciting and intelligent production. Robert Montgomery, Lionel Barrymore, Myrna Loy, William Gargan, have minor roles. Good shot: Jules Fabian's plane breaking through the clouds into moonlight...
...Penthouse," Loew's Orpheum--Myrna Loy does not have much to do; that is unfortunate. However, you will see enough of her to make you forget that you are seeing an old situation again...
...next admirer (Phillips Holmes) is accused of murdering a onetime sweetheart at a penthouse party. The real murderer is another gangster, rival to Gazotti, named Jim Crelliman (C. Henry Gordon). Lawyer Durant brings him to justice, forms what looks like a lasting attachment with the sleek underworld girl (Myrna Loy) who helps him. Adapted from a story by Arthur Somers Roche and ably directed by William S. Van Dyke-whose specialty heretofore has been wild animal pictures- Penthouse is good, straightforward Metro-Goldwyn-Mayerdrama, with glass doors and modern furniture. Most exciting shot: one of Crelliman's underlings (George...
...Myrna Loy, who has probably appeared in more different lands in movie versions than any other star, is the lovely white woman who falls under the spell of her Arab dragomen escorting her into the sands where she is to meet Reginald Denny, her fiance. One anticipates she will be carried off to the tribe and married by force. She is kidnapped but a blow across the face convinces the Arab that she doesn't like fooling, and his prize goes back to her white engineer. With a price on his head Jamil returns to Cairo and just as Diana...
...Sheik (1921) he coined a U. S. epithet and a mint of money for Paramount. The Barbarian is more than a belated imitation; like some of the songs which Jamil sings it is a plaintive serenade, begging audiences not to forget an old favorite. Most inevitable shot: Myrna Loy, dreamily indignant, slicing Novarro's cheek with a camel whip...