Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tillie and Gus (Paramount). Tillie (Alison Skipworth) is the dilapidated proprietress of a waterfront gambling house in China. Gus (W. C. Fields) is a down-at-heels Alaskan gambler, who has just escaped being lynched for murder. Long since divorced, Gus and Tillie are reunited by the terms of Tillie's brother's will: he bequeaths them an antique mortgage-ridden ferryboat. Living on the boat when Tillie and Gus come to claim it are Tillie's niece (Jacqueline Wells), her husband and an imperturbable infant (Baby LeRoy). It becomes necessary, in order to thwart a rival...
...Last Round-Up" knowing now that they have a big song, have prayed that it will not be plugged to death. But "The Last Round-Up" started to get out of hand two months ago, the first time Orchestra-Leader George Olsen played it at New York's Paramount Theatre and young Joe Morrison, a member of the Olsen troupe, shy, unaffected, unknown, stepped up to the amplifier and started to sing slowly, to a tender swinging rhythm: I'm headin' for the Last Round-Up, Gonna saddle old Paint for the last time and ride...
...applause was tremendous. The song was made. Last week George Olsen and Joe Morrison were back at the Paramount, this time doing "The Last Round-Up" with a horse posing against a twilight sky. Joe Morrison, his name now blazing under electric lights, was being besieged with radio and cinema offers...
...Angel (Paramount). When the fiancee of a young man whom she is trying successfully to seduce calls at her penthouse, Tira (Mae West) is not amused. "I'll trouble you to scram," she says, gesticulating with her hips. When she has pushed her caller through the door, Tira feels the need of light refreshment. "Beulah, peel me a grape," she tells her maid...
...Padded in most of her pictures. Mae West's real dimensions are: height 5 ft. 5 in., weight 120 lb., waist 26 in., hips 36 in., bust 36 in. She likes diamonds, rare beefsteaks, racehorses, of which she recently acquired a stable of three. Her next picture for Paramount will...