Word: photoplay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...less support than his hospital bed and consequently the film fails to live up to the previous Thin Man standard. However, Myrna Loy and Asta are around too Lot to mention Nick Charles, Jr. and they combine their talents with a capable cast to create a better than average photoplay...
Died. Carl ("Uncle Carl") Laemmle Sr., 72, tiny cinemaster, pioneer producer of the first full-length photoplay, Traffic In Souls (1912), the first $1,000,000 picture, Foolish Wives (1922), originator of the publicity-bountiful scheme of calling popular actors "stars"; of a heart attack; in Hollywood, Calif...
Scandal. In Bernarr Macfadden's Photoplay appeared an article called Hollywood's Unmarried Husbands and Wives, purporting to "expose" the relationships of couples like Barbara Stanwyck and Robert Taylor, Virginia Pine and George Raft, Carole Lombard and Clark Gable, Paulette Goddard and Charlie Chaplin, Constance Bennett and Gilbert Roland. Excerpts: "Barbara freezes homemade ice-cream for Bob from a recipe his mother gave her. . . . Before George and Virginia teamed up as a tight little twosome, George gloried in flashy, extremely-cut clothes. ... No real father could be more infatuated than George with Virginia's five-year...
...before he accepted the civilian, as an equal has been strongly painted by Mme. Furmanov and is acted with a power only excelled by the climax, in which a white regiment sacrifices itself in an attempt to break the morale of the Reds. For the first time in Soviet photoplay, justice has been done to their stalwart opponents, and the scene of the psychological charge, with White troops marching stoically, awesomely to their death, is typical of the Russian mind and its grim realism...
...Lazy A ranch at Santa Susana, Calif., Producer Buell started filming the first all-midget photoplay ever made. He had troubles. The flaccid little people tumbled off ponies, had trouble handling man-sized six guns, had attacks of temperament and sunburn. Finally, at a cost of almost $100,000 and many a headache, the film was finished...