Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Doctor Rhythm (Paramount), which enjoys the services of Crooner Bing Crosby, British Mimic Beatrice Lillie, and a rare collection of cinemerry-andrews, is a tittery tuning-up of 0. Henry's fable, The Badge of Policeman O'Roon. At its best when Comedian Crosby is singing his two hit songs, On the Sentimental Side and My Heart Is Taking Lessons, it also puts a good foot forward with a breathless gypsy dance. But whether Actress Lillie's brand of humor is obvious enough for cinema tastes is an open question which Doctor Rhythm leaves still unanswered...
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...lissome Actress Betty Grable. Mrs. Bernstein telephoned Betty's mother. "If Betty thinks she's marrying a rich boy," she piped, "she is mistaken. He hasn't a cent. He's a pauper." Last November Betty married Jackie anyway, began to support him on her Paramount Pictures salary of $500 a week. Since then Jackie has earned exactly $1,000, the result of two weeks' work with his wife in Paramount's College Swing, released this week...
...real name out of it. In the face of the publicity, Frankie fled St. Louis. To Kansas City, to Portland, Oregon, the song still pursued her. When eventually it began blaring out of the radio, she went a-lawing. By last week she was suing, among others, Mae West, Paramount Pictures, Republic Pictures, Robbins Music Corp. Her complaint: defamation of character; invasion of the right of privacy...
...Jungle Love (Paramount) is a penny thriller, featuring glistening Technicolor, toothy, slithering crocodiles and Dorothy Lamour. Untutored, enticing mistress of a tropical isle, Actress Lamour croons to stranded Airman Ray Milland in beguiling gibberish, learns in record time to sing about starlight and lovelight...