Word: pichel
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Chicago's Northwestern University announced a course on "Scenic Design" by able, sleek-haired Harvardman Lee Simonson. Cinemactor Irving Pichel was invited to University of California at Los Angeles to teach "The Art of Acting." Biggest celebrity beat was scored by small Mills College in Oakland, Calif. To summer students Mills offered "Civilization, Literature and Politics," conducted in French by Novelist Jules Remains, "Verse Writing" by Poet William Rose Benét, tennis instruction by Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman, four-time U. S. Women's Singles champion...
...gives her admirers knockout drops. The courier (Phillips Holmes) whose job is to deliver a message on which the peace of Europe depends, succeeds in doing so, aided by a young female tourist (Mae Clarke) and not too seriously hampered by the head of the spy ring (Irving Pichel...
...milestone in cinema history, The House of a Thousand Candles' only claim to attention is Mr. Pichel's sinister smile, which remains upon his face as if carved there, from the first reel to the last, giving to an otherwise somewhat episodic narrative a comforting if not entirely reasonable continuity. Typical shot: Pichel, as he smiles, patting a carrier pigeon which he calls...
...purports to show respectable ladies how to have their cake and eat it too. Ann Harding, more phlegmatic than usual, meets a penniless young Bohemian (Laurence Olivier) and elopes with him into poverty, diaper-drying and bickering, which bounce her into the arms of an appreciative tycoon (Irving Pichel). The new husband is substantial, adequate and unexciting for ten years or until the first husband turns up again, successful, in Lucerne, Switzerland. The combination results in a triumph for romance. An attempt has been made to put into the picture the confused moral values of Author Barnes's novel...
...American past in a Manhattan interior decorating establishment. The Cheat is along the same lines-about a girl who loses $20,000 gambling and to pay it, has to borrow from the villain of the piece. Her husband gives her money to cover the loan but the villain (Irving Pichel) refuses to accept a check. In two previous versions of the picture-one with Sessue Hayakawa and one with Pola Negri-this was the moment for the big scene where the heroine was branded with a red hot iron, on the back. As a novelty in this version, Irving Pichel...