Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty Day Princess (Paramount) shows how complicated the flotation of an international bond issue may become when conducted by Hollywood instead of Wall Street. This picture provides Sylvia Sidney with a dual role. As Princess Catterina Theodora Margherita ("Zizi'') of the Kingdom of Taronia, she is brought to the U. S. to help market $50,000,000 worth of Taronian bonds. As Nancy Lane. Miss Sidney is a shabby minor actress, spending her last 17? in an Automat. Princess Zizi fails ill of mumps. Fifty detectives hunting a double for her come upon...
Double Door (Paramount), one of last year's stage hits, is a macabre melodrama of a woman's greed. Like the famed Wendel family, the Van Bretts owe their fortune in Manhattan real estate to a simple maxim: "Never sell." Head of the gloomy house of Van Brett is Spinster Victoria (Mary Morris), a malevolent despot who rules the others with a rod of gold. When her half-brother (Kent Taylor) marries a hospital nurse (Evelyn Venable), Victoria determines that this "upper servant" shall never touch Van Brett money...
Lost. A $250,000 suit by Singer Helen Kane; against Paramount Publix Corp., Cartoonist Max Fleischer, Fleischer Studios, Inc.; in Manhattan. Charges: ''Betty Boop" cinema strips imitated the Kane face, gestures, "boop-boop-a-doop" singing (TIME, April...
Hollywood has tried, through "Men in White" to portray the life of a hospital doctor, but now it has turned its attention to the feminine side of the question and has given as "Registered Nurse," now showing at the Paramount and Fenway theaters. It is the story of a woman whose husband goes insane after a serious automobile accident, and her relations with the rest of the hospital force where she installs herself after leading her husband...
...Broadway in Top Speed and Girl Crazy, she got a cinema contract because Hollywood liked the way she kept repeating "Cigaret me, big boy!" in Young Man of Manhattan. She plays expert ping-pong, likes to speak pig-Latin, dislikes exhibiting her feet. We're Not Dressing (Paramount). This picture may suggest tremendous new possibilities to producers. Stranded on a desert isle, an heiress (Carole Lombard) and a sailor (Bing Crosby) give credit where due by remarking that their situation resembles that outlined in The Admirable Crichton. This is an exaggeration, for Sir James Matthew Barrie did not trouble...