Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gallant Fox might get into his class. In 1931 it was Twenty Grand that the dopesters were hopefully watching. But wise-acres long ago agreed that neither was the equal of the 17-year-old who last week was sunning himself on the Riddle farm near Lexington, Ky., while Paramount angled for his services in a racehorse film based on a story by Sportswriter Damon Runyon...
Author John O'Hara, 29, is a rolling stone who has travelled from his hometown Pottsville, Pa. Journal to the Paramount studios in Hollywood. He has contributed stories to The New Yorker, Scrib- ner's, Vanity Fair. "In addition," he says, "I have jerked soda, worked on two railroads and in a steel mill, on an ocean liner and a farm . . . bummed east and west, was a day laborer. I was married once. ..." Appointment in Samarra is his first novel. A volume of his short stories, The Doctor's Son, will be published this autumn...
Ladies Should Listen (Paramount). "Have you ever gone through the telephone book, page by page?" asks Julian de Lussac (Cary Grant) in this picture. "No, but I am reading Anthony Adverse," replies his friend Paul Vernet (Edward Everett Horton). This is a fair sample of the comedy in Ladies Should Listen, a cinematic fly spec, full of old gags and useless information. It includes such familiar figures of bedroom farce as a funny valet, a South American business man who correctly suspects his wife of misconduct, a short sighted girl (Nydia Westman) who trips over rugs...
...important a star Shirley Temple was to be became apparent with her second picture, Little Miss Marker. In this, still getting $150 a week, she appeared with Adolphe Menjou, Charles Bickford the late Dorothy Dell. The picture played three weeks at the New York Paramount equaled the record of Mae West's She Done Him Wrong, caused Fox to produce a story written especially for Cinemactress Temple called Baby, Take...
Shoot the Works (Paramount) contains two actors who have died since the picture was completed: Lew Cody, as a hardboiled theatrical manager whose slogan is "Goodby, please"; and Dorothy Dell, as a successful night club singer...