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...first lump occurs when John Carteret (Leslie Howard) is found moping, at the turn of the century, in his handsome English garden. Disconsolate about a dead fiancee, he is reluctant to console himself by becoming foster-father to her orphaned niece Kathleen. The niece grows up into Norma Shearer and falls in love with a young American (Fredric March) who has come to England to enlist in the War. When Kathleen tells her foster-father the name of her admirer-Kenneth Wayne-the whole story comes out. Kenneth Wayne's father is the man who jealously murdered John Carteret...
...which make cinema a persuasive art and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the most persuasive of cinemanufacturers. Director Sidney Franklin* treated his story with the manner appropriate for an afternoon in the attic peeking at grandmother's love letters. Leslie Howard and Fredric March act with finish and aplomb. Norma Shearer's part, immensely different from the ones she has lately played in parlor tragedies, is the one Norma Talmadge originated for the cinema in 1922. Miss Shearer performs it ably, a little less effectively in a blonde wig as Moonyeen than later as the grown-up Kathleen...
...Marie Dressier (MGM) 2) Janet Gaynor (Fox) 3) Joan Crawford (MGM) 4) Charles Farrell (Fox) 5) Greta Garbo (MGM) 6) Norma Shearer (MGM) 7) Wallace Beery (MGM) 8) Clark Gable (MGM) 9) Will Rogers (Fox) 10) Joe E. Brown (Warner...
...Norma Shearer without her characteristic nervous titter is beautiful and reasonably capable as Nina Leeds, particularly toward the end of the picture as the woman of 40. Clark Gable, perceptibly fatter, is Ned Darrell, the lover. Alexander Kirkland is Sam Evans, the husband. Ralph Morgan has kept his stage part of "dear old Charlie" Marsden, the epicene friend. May Robson as Sam's mother booms compellingly. The modernistic set of Nina's Park Avenue home is excellent. Noteworthy are frequent transparency shots which require a previously photographed background to be fitted to the foreground by the use mainly...
...Rain for United Artists. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will lend Clark Gable to Paramount in exchange for Fredric March. Warner Brothers may return Ruth Chatterton for one picture to Paramount, whence they lured her last year. Universal will lend Lew Ayres to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for one picture opposite Norma Shearer. Next year Paramount is likely to adopt the policy instituted in Grand Hotel by MGM Production Manager Irving Thalberg, of casting several stars in one picture. Forced to make as many pictures as ever, to keep theatres operating, producers had by last week announced the number of cinemas they will...