Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King's Horses (Paramount). This is designed for people who like uniforms and double-identity scenes and even more for those who like Carl Brisson. He plays both leading roles-King Rudolph, a monarch who leaves his throne to see life, and Carlo Rocco, an actor who substitutes for the King. There are many scenes where Brisson sings to himself, argues, drinks and laughs with himself, filling the screen in all directions with the manly Brisson dimples but managing more than in his earlier pictures to tone down the Brisson mannerisms. A situation develops well toward the middle...
...Paramount has gone to some trouble to prove there is still entertainment in Graustarkian romance. It took two plays, four playwrights and a screen writer with some help from Director Frank Tuttle to supply the story. The music, nice but not gaudy, was rewritten three times, final credit going to Sam Coslow. Best tune: "Dancing the Viennese...
...Rumba (Paramount). Carole Lombard, a $20,000,000 American in Cuba, is sorry Dancer George Raft was chicaned by a counterfeit lottery ticket bearing the same number as her genuine winning ticket. She goes to his dressing room to offer him the money she won, but he misunderstands. Months later after Raft has discovered and made his fortune out of the rumba, a process that involves a good deal of exciting music and exposed brunette flesh, the story wriggles up to a climax in which gangsters threaten to shoot Raft during the opening dance of his new show. His partner...
Director Ernst Lubitsch, the beady-eyed, loquacious, stocky German-Jew whose long list of successes ending with The Merry Widow have made him one of the five most famed cinema directors in the world, last week got a new job: production chief at Paramount. Never before in the history of the industry has so spectacular a director been considered sufficiently responsible to run a major studio. The appointment caused Hollywood to rattle with astonishment. Director Lubitsch caustically suggested that the shock was due to the fact that he is a picturemaker not a banker, got to work on conference with...
Less unusual than the appointment of Lubitsch and Herzbrun last week was its cause. All Hollywood studios are packed with politics, jealousy, miscellaneous crockeries. Paramount, now in the throes of reorganization, has its share. Early last week, Emanuel ("Manny") Cohen who succeeded Jesse Lasky as Paramount's production chief in 1932, flew to New York, entered the office of Paramount's aging president Adolph Zukor. When he emerged, Manny Cohen announced that he had been fired...