Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gilded Lily (Paramount). A pert Manhattan stenographer named Marilyn David (Claudette Colbert) keeps weekly Thursday night dates on a bench in front of the New York public library with her popcorn-chewing reporter friend Peter Dawes (Fred MacMurray). When her true love, Charles Gray (Ray Milland), sails away without revealing his identity as an English lord, the newshawk exposes the romance on his tabloid's front pages, untruthfully dubs Marilyn as a "no-girl" who spurned British title and fortune. With this publicity Marilyn overnight becomes Manhattan's most notorious and highly paid night-club entertainer. Her career...
Acting, however, is not the grand passion of Mrs. Norris' life. Her paramount pastime is croquet, at which she excels. The Norris summer ranch, La Estancia, at Saratoga, Calif., is virtually built around the croquet court, which is lined with floodlights for night games. The Norris croquet is an invention of their own, combining features of billiards and golf. Played with no boundaries, it is a matter of composition rubber balls, mallets of snakewood made in Manhattan. Mrs. Norris can get inordinately angry at her croquet partners when they are bad. Guests on the 200-acre estate...
Three first-run theatres in St. Louis were involved in last week's action which may result in $5,000 fines, one-year imprisonment. Warner Brothers and Paramount had shared operating control of the Ambassador, the New Grand Central and the Missouri theatres until Paramount went into bankruptcy. Unable to carry on alone, Warner Brothers in the course of a mortgage foreclosure lost the lease on the theatres to an operating company headed by Allen L. Snyder which offered more rent. But when the Snyder concern tried to get Warner Brothers, Paramount and RKO pictures, it found itself balked...
Producer Warner defended himself thus: "We have done nothing but conduct our business in a fair and honest manner. . . . We leased two other theatres in St. Louis suitable for first-run exhibition, and, in the ordinary course of business, solicited and acquired the right to exhibit the product of Paramount and RKO in addition to our own in these theatres...
...Lives of a Bengal Lancer has been in production ever since Paramount bought Major Francis Yeats-Brown's best-selling autobiography four years ago. Director Ernest Schoedsack (Grass, Chang) went to India, spent $200,000 on background shots of which 100 ft. appear in the finished picture. Almost every writer on Paramount's list had a hand in writing the adaptation. The original cast was changed so frequently that only two of its members-Gary Cooper and Sir Guy Standing-function in the finished version. Director Henry Hathaway, an obscure specialist in "Westerns" who had given up directing...