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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Responsible for the simultaneous screen success of Merle Oberon, Binnie Barnes and Wendy Barrie in The Private Life of Henry VIII, Producer Korda now presents his latest protégée: scared-looking, 18-year-old Corinne Luchaire. As an incubator for stars, Prison Without Bars is unlikely to be another Henry VIII, but U.S. cinemaddicts may well want to see more of Mile Luchaire. Most alarming shot: inmates getting drunk on alcohol purloined from the medicine chest...
...office the fame achieved by Aviator Douglas Corrigan in his famed "wrong way" flight to Ireland last July. Unlike most samples of its genre, it succeeds in being an unusually likable and honest little picture, for Corrigan is one of the worst actors who ever appeared on the screen. Indeed, cast as himself in a reasonably factual account of his own extraordinarily humdrum career, Corrigan does...
Only for the first few minutes does his shy, worried presence on the screen, in the midst of a cast of seasoned professionals like Paul Kelly, Robert Armstrong and Cora Witherspoon, threaten to be embarrassing. As the story proceeds, examining Corrigan's weary scrimpings to pay for flying lessons and then for his own plane; his painfully ineffectual efforts to become a transport pilot; finally, the well-planned exploit which brought him fame, his failings as an actor become the virtues of realism. Thus, The Flying Irishman is raised from the level of a routine Hollywood quickie to that...
Married. Ina Fagan Whitaker Gilbert ("Ina Claire"), 46, stage & screen star, onetime wife of the late John ("Garbo") Gilbert; and William Ross Wallace Jr., 40, able San Francisco attorney; she for the third time; he for the first; in Salt Lake City, Utah...
...Ameche thirty. The odd part is that Miss Colbert, as a penniless American dancer, passes up Mr. Lederer for two rows of white teeth and one of those tiny apartments you read about. But she has so much fun coming to her decision that "Midnight" offers thorough screen entertainment...