Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long as Paramount can find plots requiring the services of a hard-boiled; quick spoken character actor, Edward G. Robinson should be walking on air. Gangster, gambler, or, in this case, managing editor of a tabloid, Robinson plays his roles with a rough and ready simplicity that makes the audience forget the screen and follow merely the actions and dialogue of the protagonists. In "Five Star Final" he brings new highs in circulation figures to his tabloid by featuring a scandal of the past which forces the survivors to commit suicide rather than have their shame ruin a daughter...
Best sound recording Paramount...
Once a Lady (Paramount). While her son is reaching his majority in The Sin of Madelon Claude t, Helen Hayes changes from a blooming peasant girl into a shrunken harridan, withered and stringy with age (TIME, Nov. 9). In Once a Lady, Ruth Chatterton survives the years which it takes her daughter to grow up without developing a single wrinkle. Both heroines pass the intervening period in more or less persistent prostitution. The fact that dissipation has a less damaging effect upon Ruth Chatterton may be regarded as a tribute to the durability of the First Lady of the Cinema...
Appointed. David 0. Selznick, 28, resigned vice president of Paramount Pictures (TiME, Aug. 3); to be executive vice president in charge of production of RKO Radio Pictures, Inc. which plans to merge studio facilities with RKO Pathe, Inc. As vice president of RKO Pathe, Mr. Selznick will be in charge of consummating the merger...
John Daniel Hertz, Albert Davis Lasker and William Wrigley Jr. were elected to the board of Paramount Publix Corp. Mr. Hertz, retired founder of Yellow Cab Manufacturing Co. of Chicago, will be chairman of the finance committee. Asked whether he had a financial interest in Paramount, Gumman Wrigley last week exulted: "I've been buying Paramount Publix stock for a long time, and I intend to buy a lot more. Just this morning I bought 5,000 shares. I don't know exactly how much...