Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born. To Margaret Brooke ("Maggie") Sullavan, 27, stage & screen star (Stage Door, Three Comrades) ; and Screen Agent Leland Hayward; a daughter, their second child; in Hollywood. Name: Bridget...
...Story" is the title of the first Disney lecture, which will be given at the Fogg at 4:30 o'clock tomorrow afternoon. Others, scheduled for succeeding Thursdays, will be entitled "Lay-out," "Animation," and "The Screen." All will be free and open to the public...
Born. To Wendy Hiller, 26, British stage and screen star (Love on the Dole, Pygmalion) ; and her playwright-husband, Ronald Gow: a girl, their first child; in London...
...Louis Blues (Paramount) is memorable chiefly for keeping George Raft off the screen and putting Maxine Sullivan's swing rendition of Loch Lomond on it. Raft declined the leading role, that of a Mississippi showboat impresario, because he felt it did not do his talents justice. Paramount promptly suspended him from its pay roll. Miss Sullivan, 4-ft. n-in., gi-lb. Negro soprano, who in 1937 started a craze for gently swung folk tunes, made her Hollywood debut in Going Places last month. In St. Louis Blues, in addition to an excellent rendition of Loch Lomond, she touches...
...have its military characters talk Esperanto. The picture indicts nothing except war in general, and does even this halfheartedly. This caution, however, is not due primarily to Hollywood's reluctance to offend, but merely to its intense eagerness to make profits. Author Sherwood, as familiar with the screen as he is with the stage, was well aware that no ideology this side of Heaven is nearly as important to cinema audiences as the spectacle of Clark Gable embracing Norma Shearer for the first time since they both appeared in Strange Interlude (1932). Consequently, he devoted the first three reels...