Word: parisian
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nana (United Artists) is Emile Zola's story about a Parisian gutter-lily, gilded by Samuel Goldwyn. When first seen Nana (Anna Sten) is a scrubgirl, soapily eager to be glamorous and rich. As a first step toward this goal she pushes a drunken soldier into the troutpool of a sidewalk cafe. Her act so delights an impressionable theatrical manager (Richard Bennett) with Belasco manners and Minsky talent, that he makes her his mistress, teaches her to be a torchsinger...
...singer who gets a chance to star, surprises one & all by being good. Likewise she completely deceives everyone by assuming the flimsiest sort of disguise. She wishes to impress her songwriting husband (Franchot Tone) and a producer (Tullio Carminati) but does not succeed until she changes places with a Parisian music-hall star who used to be her partner in a sister-act. Changing the color of her hair and assuming a French accent, Constance Bennett nearly seduces her husband away from herself. Good shot: Franchot Tone promising Tullio Carminati to plead his case with Constance Bennett, then uneasily making...
...PARIS FRONT, 1914-1918-Michel Corday-Dutton ($5). Parisian war diary of a French bureaucrat...
Engaged. Gabrielle ("Coco") Chanel, fortyish, famed Parisian couturiere; and one Paul Iribe. painter, decorator, Chanel business partner...
...Paris last year its consequences were even more extraordinary than its contents. The audience at the premiere, expecting a conventional program picture, engaged in a riot. Royalists, always on the qui vive for a disturbance, attacked it for reasons of their own. His was not the only well-known Parisian name connected with Le Sang d'un Poet. Its heroine was Lee Miller, famed both as a photographer and as a model, whom Cocteau had selected for the rôle. Cocteau's backer was the Vicomte de Noailles, who allowed his house to be used for sets...