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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meets Girl (Warner Bros.) goes like a house afire when James Cagney and Pat O'Brien, as a pair of screwloose screenwriters, are expounding their Boy-Girl theory of cinema, imitating two British guardsmen, acting five parts at once in one of their screen plays, generally giving the impression of being possessed of a legion of March hares. But when Boy Bruce Lester meets Girl Marie Wilson, an inclination to dawdle sets in. Both versions of Boy Meets Girl were written by Bella & Samuel Spewack. After much thought last week on the question, Was the play better on screen...
Greatest problem in devising a screen play for Fred Astaire is how to account dramatically for the fact that he tap-dances better than anyone else in the world. On most occasions he has simply been cast as a celebrated American dancer. In Carefree he explains that he learned to dance in college, then psychoanalyzed himself to find out what he really wanted, discovered that he wanted to be a psychiatrist. He made a success of his profession, built up a pretty practice among the maladjusted skeet-shooting set. When his friend Stephen (Ralph Bellamy) brings his fianc...
...Columbia). Part of the campaign now being conducted by Hollywood studios to persuade the U. S. Department of Justice that there is real competition in the cinema business is a competitive race to the screen with accounts of how a mettlesome, unsleeping special prosecutor breaks up rackets. In I Am the Law, Edward G. Robinson looks less like New York's District Attorney Thomas E. Dewey than Chester Morris did (Smashing the Rackets) or Walter Abel (Racket Busters). He plays the part of a law school professor, an authority on criminal law, absentminded, mild as milk. On a leave...
Four Daughters (First National-Warner Bros.). Screen plays for actresses (like Shirley Temple) are far easier to provide than screen plays for entire families (like the Dionne quintuplets). Warner Brothers screenwriters, their hands full with Billy and Bobby Mauch, sighed last year when the studio signed Priscilla and Rosemary Lane, whose chief acting experience had been with Fred Waring...
Four's A Crowd (Warner Bros.) includes a trunkful of characters now fashionable in screen comedies: a madcap millionaire (Walter Connolly) with a passion for toy trains; his lovely granddaughter (Olivia de Havilland), so bored with mercenary suitors that she longs to meet a man who hates her; a livewire pressagent (Errol Flynn), who organizes a newspaper campaign to destroy the millionaire's good name, hoping thus to get hired to restore it; a dim-witted publisher (Patric Knowles) and his highly intelligent star reporter (Rosalind Russell), who are in love respectively with the heiress and the pressagent...