Word: stroheim
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most unfortunate effect of the demand for musical interpolations is to be found in "The Great Gabbo" in which Erich von Stroheim is starred. Here was a striking and original dramatic idea about an arrogant ventriloquist who could only be human when talking through the mouth of his dummy and finally became so jealous of the little figure that he broke it and felt himself a murderer. Since the story belonged legitimately enough backstage there had to be a series of chorus numbers, with the result that the drama was entirely submerged. Most screen plots, of course, are not worth...
...Great Gabbo (Sono-Art) As a ventriloquist in silk stockings and a dinner shirt, Erich von Stroheim keeps his round, bristle-covered head unbowed under bludgeonings written for him by Ben Hecht. He is in love with the girl who helps him in his act. Off stage he cannot tell her what he feels - something makes him abuse her and act mean, but in the act he throws his voice into the dummy and lets it express his love. The imagery giving power to this anecdote was certainly apparent to von Stroheim. He started out to act it stiffly...
When Erich von Stroheim first turned up in Hollywood, a polite, conceited fellow in high collars and without hair, he gained attention over other European adventurers looking for a fortune in the movies because he knew something about military etiquette. He had been to a cadet school in Austria, had served in a crack imperial regiment. After advising directors on the proper management of uniforms and parades, he began to act in pictures himself-stared through a monocle, fought duels, smoked the longest cigarets ever photographed kinetically; was billed as "The Man You Love to Hate". Not satisfied, he became...
Removed-Eric von Stroheim as director of Queen Kelly, starring Gloria Swanson. He was paid $75,000 for the story and his direction of it so far. Director Edmund Goulding took his place...
...drags. There is no question that some of the photography question that some of the photography is excellent, that scenes are skillfully put together, and that Fay Wray does a first class bit of acting. But somehow the thing seems to drag out interminably. As a picture by von Stroheim. "The Wedding March" is probably worth seeing, and as movies go it certainly is more than average, but none the less in view of what has been said in anticipation it is a great disappointment...