Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have of getting very far by making this the football of politics and politicians. And without meaning to question anybody's sincerity, I may be permitted to wonder whether gentlemen who discourse so extravagantly and so passionately on the subject are not really laying down a barrage or smoke screen with which they hope to hide other issues?such, for example, as Prohibition?about which they may not think it politically wise to speak so boldly...
...what to do. His sedentary technique must have been particularly practical for Waterloo Bridge since he had an expert cast whose major deficiency is no more im portant than a heterogeny of accents and, in one scene, the gingerly demeanor toward tennis rackets that is universal on stage and screen. The soldier (Kent Douglass) seems naif but not absurd; his stepfather (Frederick Kerr) is a magnificently deaf old gentleman whose grunts and questions are not only real but funny. Mae Clarke as the girl gives the best performance of her short but competent career. Forlorn but hardboiled, she remains plausible...
...play You and I on which The Bargain was based was but a minor trophy, from the Harvard "workshop" of Professor George Pierce Baker, in 1922. The Bargain sparkles intermittently with the witty insanity which is Author Barry's chief contribution to letters and the screen. But it is plainly the product of a sophomore playwright. Its major originality is to show a father who has enriched himself in business, painfully disappointed when his son offers to give up an artistic career and enter the family soap firm. The son's determination to enter business comes from lack...
Angels, The Front Page), that he had bought screen rights to the book for $15,000 and intended to produce it immediately - with the original cast, if they would consent to appear. Producer Hughes hired Leo McCarey to direct the picture, Ben Hecht to work on the dialog. When he came to the problem of selecting a cast, however, Hollywood's indignation interfered with his plans. Only three cinemactors are under exclusive con tract to Producer Hughes - Billie Dove (sometimes reported engaged to him) ; Pat O'Brien (Front Page) ; Jean Harlow (Hell's Angels). Forced to hire...
Street Scene (United Artists). In making a picture out of Elmer Rice's Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Producer Samuel Goldwyn proceeded simply. He bought the screen rights for $150,000, hired eight actors from the original cast, photographed the play as directly as possible. Inevitable comparison between the play and the cinema reflects no discredit on the latter. It loses a little by necessary abridgments in dialog and by the limitations of the camera when confronted by the peculiar problems of the mise-en-scene, but these are trivial defects. In the large, the cinema achieves the same effect...