Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Karenina still have two important things in common. These are a superb portrayal of Anna by Greta Garbo and a story which, like many masterpieces of the world's literature, could scarcely have been better suited to the purposes of Hollywood if it had been written by six famed screen writers...
...appears on the screen, the story of two nimble-wits (Pat O'Brien and Frank McHugh) who win a beauty contest with a composite photograph of Harlow, Garbo, Dietrich et al. and then palm off a dowdy chambermaid (Marion Davies) as their "original," turns out to be worth considerably less than the purchase price. Under Director Mervyn LeRoy, whose motto seems to have been "When in doubt, shout," Page Miss Glory becomes the noisiest comedy in months, with only Patsy Kelly as a morose chambermaid and Allen Jenkins as a kidnapper managing to give credible performances...
Steamboat Round the Bend (Fox). When Marie Dressler died last year, Will Rogers promptly remarked: "Isn't the talking screen a wonderful thing for those who love a person? It allows them to live on after they have gone." If, as newspapers politely suggested last week, it occurred to Fox executives that Will Rogers' death last fortnight made it hard to know what to do with his two unreleased, completed pictures, this statement served as a convenient hint. Forty-eight hours after the Rogers funeral in Hollywood the first of the two, Steamboat Round the Bend, made...
...launched a career which has done more than any other one thing to keep beauty parlors busy through Depression. Her humor, overlooked by Hughes, was recognized by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to whom he sold her contract for $60,000. Since Theda Bara retired, sex appeal on the U. S. screen has been a quality largely identified with comedy. Beginning with Red Headed Woman and continuing with Red Dust, Dinner at Eight and Bombshell, Jean Harlow has paradoxically made herself a symbol for the kind of allure which her appearance naturally suggests by ridiculing it. She was blithely hailed...
...current celebrity, it is her occasional dissatisfaction with the character which her appearance and her mother, by a sort of conspiracy of nature and circumstance, have built up for her. Her determination to achieve a form of self-expression distinct from the one she has achieved on the screen shows itself in different ways. For her game of "Murder Mystery," she prefers writers as opponents, as she believes they think up the best crimes. She herself wants to write and spent last year completing a novel called Today is Tonight which has not yet gone to a publisher. Well aware...