Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Texas Rangers (Paramount) represents Hollywood's most determined effort to date to capitalize that glorious period of a State in the making, of which the amusement possibilities have already been so strikingly demonstrated by Showman Billy Rose and his Fort Worth Nude Ranch...
Celebrated slick-paper Fictionists Patterson McNutt, Grover Jones, Gene Fowler, Nunnally Johnson wrote a story, signed it "Don Marquis," sold it to the 'Saturday Evening Post, to Paramount Pictures. To Author Donald Robert Perry ("Don") Marquis, (The Old Soak), ill in bed, went the two checks as a present...
Rhythm on the Range (Paramount) is a good-humoured, well-paced musicomedy in which Bing Crosby's nonchalant but thoroughly mellifluous barytone is pleasantly used to punctuate a mildly satiric investigation of the rodeo business. By entering every event at Madison Square Garden, Jeff Larabee manages to squeeze out enough prize money to cover the price of Cuddles, a gigantic curly-haired Hereford bull. In Cuddles' box car, on the way back to the ranch where he is a cowhand, he discovers a pretty stowaway (Frances Farmer) who turns out to be his employer's niece...
...Hours to Kill (Twentieth Century-Fox) is not nine times as good as Four Hours to Kill, released last year, the title of which has been borrowed and expanded to its present proportions with due consent of Paramount...
...date set." On 14 features the cost of such delays in terms of idle artists' salaries alone amounted to $23,000 each. On one picture no less than 19 writers were engaged in a desperate attempt to express an inarticulate producer's ideas. Nearly one-half of Paramount's total studio overhead of $5,500,000 last year represented provisions for losses on stories and scenarios later abandoned and artists' salaries for idle and excessive time spent on pictures...