Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Golden Harvest (Paramount) like many another Hollywood problem play, tries earnestly to take sides on a controversial question without offending anyone. A well-to-do wheat farmer has two sons. One of them, Walt Martin (Richard Arlen) stays at home, marries a neighbor's daughter, begets twins and tours his fields happily in a tractor. Walt's older brother Chris (Chester Morris) goes to Chicago, makes a fortune speculating in wheat, marries the egotistical daughter (Genevieve Tobin) of the richest speculator in the Pit. When wheat prices go down and foreclosed mortgages-without which even a problem play...
...last two and one-half years. Since this excerpt from it, which the producers expect to follow with two more feature length pictures and a series of short travelogs, is unsatisfactory, the future of Eisenstein's monster is likely to be as controversial as its past. In 1931 Paramount hired Director Eisenstein, whose Potemkin and Ten Days That Shook the World were probably the best pre-talkie Russian cinemas to go to Hollywood. He worked for three months on An American Tragedy, was then re moved because he was "too unusual." Upton Sinclair and some of his friends...
...pressmen, publishers and advertisers had a band led by a dancing Indian in a war bonnet (see p. 50 ). Walter Damrosch was with the radio people; little old Charles Winninger led the actors. Samuel ("Roxy") Rothafel's costumed choristers from Radio City cut capers on the asphalt. Paramount had four imitation Marx Brothers and six Mae Wests. Some Army signalers paused in front of the reviewing stand to fly 50 pigeons back to Washington with greetings to the President. The Stock Exchange crowd had a band of Scotch pipers. The Cotton Exchange people had a band which just played...
...paramount purposes of introducing the series of lectures, receptions, and speeches scheduled for incoming students within the next three days was to acquaint them with the policies and mechanical routine of the College, and to let them orient themselves before a horde of dissolute upperclassmen bore down to disturb the pre-college peace. Towards accomplishing this purpose, the meetings have been an assistance...
...Sunday Afternoon (Paramount). Old-fashioned people who, when they speak of ''the movies" still think of cowboys, sheiks and embraces on an Empire sofa, should see this picture adapted from James Hagan's stage comedy One Sunday Afternoon. It is a calm, observant little comedy which shows how a man who thinks that he married the wrong girl finds out finally that he married the right one. In it, Gary Cooper, Paramount's No. 1 sex specialist, gives a first-rate performance as a country dentist...