Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lumber in a single day, spent two months at Longview, Wash., making the outdoor sequences. The result, as background of a story loosely adapted from James Oliver Curwood's 1922 novel, is the most spectacular investigation of the lumber industry so far contributed by the screen. It is also in many respects the most effective, because least exotic, contribution to the screen so far made in Technicolor...
Camille (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). For this version of Alexandre Dumas' famed tearjerker, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer assembled the three best current writers of tearjerkers, the top director of tearjerkers, the screen's No. i tragedienne and the industry's current male box-office sensation. The result, against the lush background of Art Director Cedric Gibbons' notion of 19th Century Paris, equipped with generous measures of sorrow, pictorial beauty, charm, plot, glamour and audience appeal, amounts to a Camillennium...
Garbed in his habitual gabardine slacks and yellow turtle-neck sweater, the stage and screen star was the true feminine counterpart of the Harvardian's idea of dressing for comfort. Despite constant interruptions from the horde of autograph-seekers and hangers-on around her dressing-room, she shot back alert replies, seemed to enjoy her only exclusive interview during her brief Hub visit...
Encouraging college aspirants to the screen, Miss Hepburn ejaculated, "Why, there are hundreds of actors and directors in Hollywood with university degrees." Franchot Tone and Fredric March were named as two Phi Beta Kappa actors. She asserted that college acting often gives the budding actor too high an opinion of himself and that every would-be star is due for a jolt when he realizes how hard it is to break...
Asked what feminine screen star she admired most, she replied without hesitation that it was Garbo. "Garbo has everything, beauty, personality, and tal-talent," she exclaimed. Of male celebrities she termed Paul Muni "the most brilliant actor in Hollywood...