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...International the deal was a leg up toward turning Hollywood's big five (MGM, Paramount, 20th Century-Fox, Warner, RKO-Radio) into a big six. It now has distribution guaranteed in the cushy foreign market, and a studio (Universal) in which to make pictures. All it has to do now is to turn out good pictures, and it has a good start in that...
...Lost Weekend (Paramount) follows its dipsomaniac hero to the hangover end of a five-day drunk. A naturalistic horror picture, it is a nightmarish look at the life of a specialized urban type: the fear-paralyzed writer turned alcoholic. In some respects, the picture is a better temperance tract than Charles Jackson's best-selling novel from which it was adapted...
...Cornelius Vanderbilt's ballroom, dining room and one of her bathrooms, from her abandoned brownstone mansion on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue, were bought by Paramount Pictures as props...
...Claudette Colbert has a "diamond" face, Ann Sheridan a "square" face, etc. The same technique is applied in making up all faces of the same type. For these things, Perc became the highest-paid make-up artist in the world, getting $50,000 a year from Warner Bros. (At Paramount, Wally gets...
Whether modern cinemaddicts will be amused by such stuff is Paramount's long shot. For many, Miss Lake's emaciated glamor and Bracken's solid sense of inanity will be enough. Others may enjoy being reminded of what they or their elders used to laugh...