Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...almost as much of a spout offstage as on. His puns are endless: "One man's Mede is another man's Persian" or (of a college girl who eloped) "She put the heart before the course." So are his retorts discourteous. When Adolph Zukor, then president of Paramount, offered Kaufman $30,000 for movie rights on a play, Kaufman, who thought the rights worth much more, replied: "I guess not. But I'll tell you what I'll do-I'll give you $40,000 for Paramount." So are his crazy cracks. A high-pressure...
Against a background of the broken-body horror of civilian bombings in the Chinese war, a convincing psychological problem is finally resolved. This is the substance of "Disputed Passage," a Paramount picture patterned on Lloyd C. Douglas's best seller which seems to have imbibed much of the spirit of the original...
...other hand, Dorothy Lamour as an orientalized American is distinctly wooden--not only in her acting but in her attempt at speaking English with an accent. It seems that Paramount has taught her some Chinese for the picture; for those who are interested, it can be understood, but it recks of Brooklyn...
Disputed Passage (Paramount) recounts the up-to-date version of the believer who loses his faith-the strict scientist who loses his atheism. This cinematic sermon is based on a novel by Lloyd Cassel Douglas, retired parson, whose best-selling Green Light and Magnificent Obsession, both successfully picturized, both treated other phases of the same conversion...
Last week, with Paramount, RKO and MGM, dickering for his picture, the Rev. Mr. Friedrich, movie producer and parson too, looked around for a typically U. S. town to test audience reaction to the film. He chose Joplin, Mo., birthplace of Cinemactor Beal...