Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paramount still produces more pictures than any other studio in the U. S.?64 features, 204 shorts. Adolph Zukor, who last week went to Hollywood where Emanuel Cohen, one-time newsreel specialist, is still Paramount's production chief, promised his distributors two more Mae West pictures after her forthcoming It Ain't No Sin. They are called Gentleman's Choice and Me the Queen. Whether or not Marlene Dietrich's vogue survives The Scarlet Empress, finished last April but held for release until the public forgets the queening of Garbo (Queen Christina) and Bergner (Catherine the Great), she will...
Many Happy Returns (Paramount). When Gracie (Gracie Allen) arrives in Los Angeles, she says: "I know I'm going to like California because I've always wanted to see the Statue of Liberty." She and her exasperated husband Burns (George Burns) meet a studio chief; Gracie expects him to be an Indian. When they arrive at the studio, the gateman looks suspiciously at Gracie. She points to the president of the company behind them, says: "That's all right. He's with us." In the studio she watches a picture being filmed, meets Bandmaster Guy Lombardo...
...parade was United Cigar Stores, which toppled into bankruptcy in 1932 because its management had been tempted to speculate in real estate as a sideline. Another was Associated Telephone Utilities, which I. C. C. Commissioner Splawn lately held up to Congress as a horrible example of inflated capitalization. Paramount Publix, once believed to be so conservatively managed that Kuhn, Loeb gladly underwrote its bonds, was in line early. Innocent-looking contracts to repurchase its own stock at $80 per share had tripped Paramount. Disgruntled bondholders grabbed at a new means to throw Associated Gas & Electric into the courts. Others include...
...Trumpet Blows-produced by Paramount. . . . The absolutely unwholesome and unattractive George Raft is the 'hero,' loose in his relationship with women and a thorough no-account. . . . It is unfit for any decent person to see or approve. . . . Protest to Paramount Studios, Hollywood, California. Protest to George Raft, same address...
...profession. You know, we do have pride, and to see ourselves so carelessly portrayed is somewhat disconcerting. Fortunately, the vast majority are as ignorant as the directors. In [the cinema] Men in White, particularly, there are several outstanding mistakes. First of all, in doing intravenous work it is of paramount necessity that the tourniquet be removed -a little item Dr. Gable forgot; secondly, a surgeon never operates on an unanesthetized person, as was the case in this picture-evidenced by the perfectly normal eye reflex; thirdly, he never stands at such a distance from the operating field that he works...