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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nana (United Artists) is Emile Zola's story about a Parisian gutter-lily, gilded by Samuel Goldwyn. When first seen Nana (Anna Sten) is a scrubgirl, soapily eager to be glamorous and rich. As a first step toward this goal she pushes a drunken soldier into the troutpool of a sidewalk cafe. Her act so delights an impressionable theatrical manager (Richard Bennett) with Belasco manners and Minsky talent, that he makes her his mistress, teaches her to be a torchsinger...
Like most Goldwyn pictures, Nana was far more expensive than the finished product would suggest. As released this week it represents an investment of about $1,000,000. Anna Sten had to be taught English before production could begin. A version of the picture directed by George Fitzmaurice was scrapped, after being two-thirds finished, because it was over-conscientiously acted. As a build-up for Anna Sten United Artists launched a lavish advertising campaign consisting of daily newspaper "teasers"-Sten portraits with no text except her name and one word to describe her varying expressions ("Mysterious," "Fascinating," "Glamorous," "Worldly...
That Germans have no der Drang zu rüsten (will-to-arms), preferring disarmament by everyone, was the theme of Adolf Hitler's rousing peace speech touched off by President Roosevelt's disarmament appeal (TIME, May 29). In Berlin last week Nazi ideals jogged back to their pugnacious norm. Beefy Captain Nermann Wilhelm Göring, most potent Hitler henchman and Premier of Prussia, stomped up the rostrum of his Diet to tell Prussian Deputies his plans for their Ministry of Education...
...reporters who met her when she arrived in Manhattan last fortnight, Anna Sten said, "How do you do? Yes. No. Maybe." She was not trying to be cryptic. They were the only English words she knew. If she can learn quickly enough, she will be Ronald Colman's leading lady in Samuel Goldwyn's production of The Brothers Karamazov. Producer Goldwyn saw her in the Tobis production Karamazov, later in Tempest, with Emil Jannings. He cabled his agent to give her a contract if she could learn English quickly. Actress Sten thought it would take about two weeks...
Brisk, blonde and beauteous, Anna Sten's confidence was not entirely unreasonable. When she arrived in Hollywood last week it was the beginning of her third cinema career. When her father, a Russian ballet master, died, Anna, then 12, helped to support the family in Kiev. At 15 she got into the Soviet Film Academy. Three years later, Sovkino sent her to Berlin to make pictures in Russian. Her work in Karamazov got her a UFA contract. She made two pictures in German, then a French version of Karamazov after studying French for three weeks. To convince Producer Goldwyn...