Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...decided to make a picture of Katherine Brush's novel Red-Headed Woman, they thought at once of red-headed Clara Bow, when and if she ended her retirement from notoriety. Last week, now married to Actor Rex Bell, Actress Bow announced that she would return to the screen, but not in Red-Headed Woman. She signed a contract with Fox, calling for a reported $125-$150,000 per picture. The first will be an adaptation of Tiffany Thayer's story about a half-caste girl, Call Her Savage...
...Academy. Three years later, Sovkino sent her to Berlin to make pictures in Russian. Her work in Karamazov got her a UFA contract. She made two pictures in German, then a French version of Karamazov after studying French for three weeks. To convince Producer Goldwyn she took a Berlin screen test-a bit from Gloria Swanson's role in Indiscretion, which she recited in English. Anna Sten, 22, came to the U. S. accompanied by her German husband (Dr. Eugen Franke) but not by her Russian dog, Drushka ("Little Friend''). Said she (in German): "The night...
Tragedies based on renunciation have been rare enough on the American screen, where happy ends must always be peeping around the corner. And when the American films have turned to tragedies, they have seldom been without wild-eyed women given to clock-wise or counter-clockwise movements of the arms...
...screen has hardly seen before now a story of renunciation so restrained and so genuine as "Zwei Menschen." In it, a theme that one might think impossible to make convincing has been told simply and with great sweetness...
Whatever the vagaries of his private life, Mix's screen life has been impeccable. He has never been shown smoking, drunk, or disorderly beyond the usual rowdiness of a film-land cowboy. Destry Rides Again remains true to the Mix tradition. And if it were not the first of six Mix talking pictures which Universal is to produce, all preceded by loud publicity, one might suspect that Producer Carl Laemmle Jr. constructed Destry Rides Again with his tongue in his cheek. Containing all the old trappings of silent pre-War Westerns, with a main street, a saloon entitled...