Word: selwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grand Hotel and other recent films, all the action in Skyscraper Souls takes place under one roof. Director Edgar Selwyn, who thinks writers for the cinemas deserve more credit than directors, had a less vivid mob to handle than the one in American Madness, but he disposed them so ably about the corridors and offices of the Dwight Building that its interior seems more densely populated and lively than that of most real edifices of comparable size. Typical shot: Banker Dwight guzzling champagne with his secretary's stenographer while artfully persuading her to take a trip on his yacht...
...Francisco Bernard Goldfish, brother of Film Producer Samuel Goldwyn, had his name changed to Fish, He explained that Brother Samuel had copy righted the name Goldwyn, adopted after he joined forces with Producers Archi bald & Edgar Selwyn in 1916. A third brother, Ben Goldfish of Chicago, has already become Fish...
...tender; as a jailbird, she chatters to a friend (Marie Prevost) about her son; as a prostitute, she squeals for money in barrooms and drums up her trade without ever making the error of playing for the audience's sympathy. The picture is well directed by Edgar Selwyn, splendidly acted by the rest of the cast?particularly by Jean Hersholt as an old physician who, towards the end of the picture, meets Madelon Claudet running away from her son's house...
...Nurse convinces, yet it is only superficially, and therefore at times offensively, gruesome. Just one moment like that in All Quiet on the Western Front, when the soldier whose leg has been amputated complains of a pain in his toe, would have justified much of inexperienced Director Edgar Selwyn's blood, sentimentality and synthetic thunder. Anita Page, Robert Montgomery, Robert Ames and June Walker are in it. Best shot: the officers' party. Silliest shot: the advent of Anita Page's baby...