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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...production is elaborate and smooth, though the musical score doesn't touch "Modern Times." Gardiner and Paulette Goddard are thrown in for good measure and a $1.10 ticket. Goddard ought to stick with Bob Hope: at least she got undressed every other reel in "The Ghost Breakers...
...commercial fishing in Holland (The Breakers), mining in Belgium (Borinage), fighting in Spain and China (Spanish Earth, The 400,000,000). Trying to sell his product in competition with the fast freight from Hollywood has taught Ivens he must unwind his factual, sometimes statistical, accounts without making his reel resemble a Fitz-Patrick Travelogue or a photostatic copy of a balance sheet...
From then on Grover Jones kept at the career, amassed more than 350 screen credits. He directed a quickie for a comic who called himself Charles Chaplin and who went to Mexico when he was sued by Charlie Chaplin. He wrote a seven-reel drama for Anna Held. He wrote scripts for Lives of a Bengal Lancer, The Plainsman, Souls at Sea, 52nd Street. Last June he went to St. Vincent's Hospital for a kidney operation, began dictating the screenplay of Three Girls and a Gob soon after he came out of the anesthesia. Three weeks ago, with...
Typical subjects among the eight in Globe's first reel: a tepid arrangement of Hold That Tiger by Victor Young and his orchestra; Row, Row, Row sung with innuendoes by Joy Hodges; six girls and an orchestra doing Parade of the Wooden Soldiers. The customer cannot choose the subject he wishes to see and hear; he takes whatever comes next on the endless film...
...screen. The $695 box is designed to hold 1,000 ft. of 16-mm. film, made for Mills by James Roosevelt's Globe Productions in Hollywood. There is no direct corporate connection between Mills and Globe. But the film will be leased to box owners, at $17.50 per reel for the first week, less later, by a projected Soundies Distributing Corp. of America Inc., in which Jimmy Roosevelt and Mills will be chief stockholders...