Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Peaches-&-cream Cinemactress Madeleine Carroll asked Paramount a favor: a change of title for her new film (Are Husbands Necessary?). Reason: she is getting a divorce from her husband, Mayfairite Captain Philip Astley...
Stolen Life (Orion Productions-Paramount release). Elisabeth Bergner is a tiny, talented Viennese Jewess of 38, of whom German critics were once proud. For five years she has been making movies in English without strongly impressing U. S. audiences. Her English film debut in Catherine the Great was unfortunately shadowed in the U. S. by Marlene Dietrich's ballyhooed The Scarlet Empress, and her most successful picture, Escape Me Never (in which she also played her only Broadway role), was too easy for her to prove much. In Stolen Life, Actress Bergner gets. and takes, her first real chance...
...Paramount will build a new $12,000,000 plant in West Los Angeles, make 60 pictures, including two starring Charles Laughton; Daphne du Maurier's Jamaica Inn and London After Dark with Vivien (Scarlett O'Hara) Leigh...
Hotel Imperial (Paramount). Sloe-eyed Isa Miranda of Italy, who unfortunately got to Hollywood about ten years after Marlene Dietrich, going through her preliminary workout in a spy melodrama...
...especially delicate for Franklin Roosevelt. Abandoning all pretense of innocence, he telegraphed optimistically to Manhattan: ". . " The differences of viewpoint . . . appear not to be insurmountable. . . . The public interest is paramount. ... As President of the United States, I caution the negotiators on both sides to keep this in mind...