Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sing Baby Sing (Twentieth Century-Fox) opens with the warning that any resemblance the characters may have to real people is due to coincidence. Seldom, if ever, has the remarkable influence of coincidence on screen writing been so apparent. After Joan (Alice Faye) has met Farraday (Adolphe Menjou) in a night club, their romance curiously suggests certain headline episodes in the recent love-life of Miss Elaine Barrie and Mr. John Barrymore...
Adorned with able comics (Patsy Kelly, Ted Healy, Gregory Ratoff), full of good tunes (Love Will Tell, You Turned the Tables on Me, When Did You Leave Heaven), Sing Baby Sing deserts the polite little plots which are the current fashion in screen musicals, originates its own form. It is a combination of hilarious farce and bigtime revue...
Activities of the Barrymores: Ethel, 57, announced by radio the end of her 44-year stage and screen career, told the world she would devote her time to helping "young players seeking advice about acting." John, 54. lying ill of a heart ailment, heard that Elaine Barrie, 21, with whom he last year had a "blessed relationship" but from whom he is now estranged, would keep the diamond ring he had given her. Lionel, 58, finished playing Andrew Jackson in MGM's The Gorgeous Hussy, began to prepare for his role as Duval Sr. in forthcoming Camille...
Anthony Adverse (Warner). When Warner Brothers bought screen rights to Hervey Allen's 1,224-page best-seller of 1933 for about $35,000 readers wondered how those cinemen would succeed in putting the whole story into a single picture. As revealed last week, the answer is extremely simple. Warner Brothers do not succeed in anything of the sort because they do not try. Although the picture is twice as long (2 hr. 19 min.), as an average Hollywood production, it carries Author Allen's celebrated adventurer (Fredric March) through only about two-thirds of his career, leaves...
Presentation of the longest picture ever made by Warner Brothers* in a year in which long pictures are fashionable deserved special ceremonies. Anthony Adverse received them. For its world premiere, Warner Brothers not only invited to Los Angeles' Carthay Circle theatre the biggest audience of screen celebrities ever assembled in one hall, but they also erected a grandstand outside to hold the audience of sightseers who went to see the audience of celebrities. Last week, a full-page advertisement in cinema trade papers expressed the thanks of Director Mervyn LeRoy to 133 actors, script clerks, producers, pressagents...