Word: screenings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...acting with her teeth is unjust. . . . What strikes me as peculiarly outstanding is that you have failed to remark on Miss MacDonald's acting with her eyes. That love scene in Blackie Norton's office is one of the most genuine I have ever seen on the screen...
...Hollywood Director Howard Hawks last week conducted screen tests to find an actor to play opposite Cinemactress Andrea Leeds in Producer Sam Goldwyn's forthcoming picture Come and Get It. For a typical sequence he chose one in which the actor kissed Cinemactress Leeds eight times. In order to give each of three prospects-John Payne, Bob Lowrey and Tennist Frank Shields-a fair chance, he had each do the sequence 20 or more times. The tests took more than three hours each. At the end of the day a script clerk announced that Cinemactress Leeds had been kissed...
...professional, an Argentine olive oil dealer, a lady idol worshipper and a young man with an Oedipus complex. It has also indicated that its hero, less dashing than Philo Vance and less whimsical than Charlie Chan, but more mercenary than either, will be a highly acceptable addition to the screen's growing corps of private operatives. Good sequence: Wolfe, confronted with a mysterious package that makes an ominous ticking noise, explaining as he unwraps it, how he knows it contains no bomb...
...might give children bad ideas. Hereafter, to theatres which pay $10 for the privilege of having them, children may go, unaccompanied by adults, up to 6 p. m. during school months, up to 7 p. m. in the summer. Ushers will direct them to a special section near the screen where children, unlike adults, prefer to sit. A qualified matron, licensed by the city, will see to it that they sit in their own section, behave properly while there...
Some of the doll-men scenes were made by re-projecting double-exposed images upon a measured screen, but most of them required the vastly simpler although staggeringly expensive method of literal photography in sets six times normal size. These scenes were shot on MGM's famed Stage No. 12, twice as big as any other soundstage on the lot. Unlike Director Tod Browning's Freaks, or most of the famed Lon Chaney silents which he made, The Devil-Doll's hobgoblinery beguiles rather than frightens...