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...grand sachem, lord paramount and international president of the American Federation of Musicians, Caesar Petrillo has an imperial disdain for convention, and, when confronted by bacteria, he will stop at nothing. He roars like a wounded lion if a photographer lays a camera down near him; he believes microbes use cam eras as invasion barges to leap...
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...Welcome Stranger (Paramount...
...five top-grossing companies (figured on pictures which grossed $2,000,000 plus): MGM, $50,900,000 on 15 pictures; Paramount, $48,050,000 on 13; RKO, $39,050,000, on ten; Warner, $38,800,000 on 14; 20th Century...
...vaudeville team, Paramount's Gold Dust twins stage a hoary entangled-arms routine which, unfortunately, stayed behind when Wheeler and Woolsey left Hollywood by popular request around 1935. And when they combine forces with a trio of Latin musicians for a five-man hat-mixup act, the result is probably the unfunniest three minutes in film history, not excepting the newsreel shots of Pearl Harbor...