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...Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, directed by Ernst Lubitsch; and Pearl Buck's The Good Earth for which exteriors have already been filmed in China. Cinemaddicts, who have lately been warned by the Roman Catholic Church's Legion of Decency to cast a suspicious eye on all pictures starring Norma Shearer (Mrs. Irving Thalberg), will next see that actress performing as a well-behaved Victorian poetess in The Barretts of Wimpole Street, with Fredric March and Charles Laughton. Clark Gable, Wallace Beery and Robert Montgomery will do what they can with Mutiny on the Bounty, a salty slice of sea history...
...Riptide-Produced by MGM Unfortunately typical of the pictures that have been built around Norma Shearer, the much publicized wife of Irving Thalberg who picks her plays and her roles. It seems typical of Hollywood morality that a husband as production manager should constantly cast his charming wife in the role of a loose and immoral woman. . . . We advise strong guard over all pictures which feature Norma Shearer. .. . Protest. . . . Protest...
Critics have had much to any about "Riptide" and most of their mouthings have not been too favorable toward the attempts of Norma Shearer in this drama but a casual observer of the movie would, the Playgoer thinks, be much more lenient...
...sure the disagreeableness of Herbert Marshall as the husband and the over-emphatic gayety of Miss Shearer at times become more than annoying but these are more than made up for by the antics of Aunt Hotty and her secretary; the busy Bertie. Mr. Marshall cannot be blamed for an uncompromising role but he most certainly cannot escape the censure that his portrayal is uninspired throughout. His stride is weird, he turns from the camera when the audience wants from the camera when the audience wants to see him and his countenance is insufferably blank. It is difficult, however...
Marion Davies, Norma Shearer, Irving Thalberg, Gary Cooper & wife. All donned costumes (by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) of the year of the great man's birth. Men paraded about as Union or Confederate officers. Women wore crinoline gowns, hoop skirts. At the birthday dinner an enormous cake, wired for sound, sang out: "Dear Mister Hearst: This is your birthday cake speaking to you to give you the greetings of your friends assembled here and your friends all over the world to wish you happiness this...