Word: robson
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cast, even more prodigious than the one which Thalberg last year chose for Grand Hotel, for MGM's forthcoming production of Dinner at Eight: Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Billie Burke, Madge Evans, John Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Jean Hersholt, Louise Closser Hale. Grant Mitchell, May Robson, Karen Morley...
...Orphan Annie," the ordinarily hard-to-bear Mitzi Green is absolutely insufferable. Those who follow the comic strip assidously will be grievously disappointed to see Sandy a German shepherd and Daddy Warbucks an insignificant little fat man whose only qualification for the part is a completely bald head. May Robson, in the part of one of Annie's numerous sponsors, is the only redeeming feature. And those who are touched by sweet and sentimental little children may be able to squeeze a bit of eye-moisture out of Buster Phelps saying his prayers at Grandma's knee. But the show...
...city directory, acts consistently well throughout the production. Charles Laughton gives the best, but unfortunately shortest, performance; Charlie Ruggles makes a very amusing clerk in a chinaware store; Wynne Gibson overacts as the prostitute; Alison Skipworth and W. C. Fields provide much needed comic relief; and May Robson, in one of her first appearances on the screen, gives one of the best pieces of acting in the picture. Individually, the shots are generally well-directed and effective, but as a whole the picture has too little continuity, too little of its best actors, and much too little of many excellent...
...reasonably capable as Nina Leeds, particularly toward the end of the picture as the woman of 40. Clark Gable, perceptibly fatter, is Ned Darrell, the lover. Alexander Kirkland is Sam Evans, the husband. Ralph Morgan has kept his stage part of "dear old Charlie" Marsden, the epicene friend. May Robson as Sam's mother booms compellingly. The modernistic set of Nina's Park Avenue home is excellent. Noteworthy are frequent transparency shots which require a previously photographed background to be fitted to the foreground by the use mainly of a plate-glass screen blasted with flour...
...praise, however, to May Robson, who rides roughshod over the industrial leaders of the nation, working her will in national crises. Irascible, domineering as she appears, it is impossible to dislike her because of her gruff good-humor, and her submerged maternal affection, which intermittently breaks through her hardness, and prevents the characterization from degenerating into a mechanical personification of worldly greed...