Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...actors who are capable of taking an eye for an eye against any baby star in pictures. Not the least remarkable of Director Kanin's achievements in The Great Man Votes was keeping this competition between Barrymore and Holden almost invisible on the screen. Good shot: Barrymore stealing a scene when he is supposed to be asleep...
Heart of Paris (Tri-National). Ingenious French comedy which, starting where so many screen plays end, with a courtroom scene, shows what happens to a beautiful girl after she has been acquitted of murder...
...Frankenstein (Universal). Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Lionel Atwill and Basil Rathbone bellowing, snarling, frowning and sneering in what is apparently Frankenstein's monster's last appearance on the screen (he ends up in a puddle of boiling sulfur...
Dance Director LeRoy Prinz complained bitterly to the Screen Actors' Guild that Producer Earl Carroll, who fortnight ago opened the most elaborate cabaret-theatre-restaurant on the West Coast (TIME, Jan. 9), was violating the Wagner Labor Relations Act. Said he: "Carroll is trying to corner all the legs in Hollywood-the legs that we have trained...
...have overlooked "Grand Illusion," "The Citadel" fully deserves the honors it has won. Based on Dr. A. J. Cronin's popular novel, this story of a young doctor fighting for his ideals in a money-mad world loses none of its effectiveness on the screen. For once Hollywood has cast aside its grandiose ideas of lavish staging effects and breath-taking landscape panoramas to present a simple and convincing portrait of medical life. Particularly effective are the scenes in the Welsh coal mines and rustic country clinics. Robert Donat and Rosalind Russell head a fine cast, among whom Ralph Richardson...