Word: sylvia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mary Burns, Fugitive" is in the ancient tradition of gangster films, but gangster films have gone a long, long way since "Scarface". Sylvia Sydney mopes all over the place--which she does very well--and gives us a strongly moving Mary Burns. Allen Baxter is an impressively cold, nerveless killer, albeit slightly too good-looking...
...celluloid capital no longer impairs our morals by glorifying the wicked. For this Allen Baxter dashes all over the country killing people, and still he does not win the hearts of his audience. No one feels the slightest twinge of romantic sorrow when Sylvia Sydney shoots him to death in the scene before she is united to a tweedy author and explorer, Melvyn Douglas...
Mary Burns, Fugitive (Paramount) is evidence that, if the cinema is not quite ready to call off its exploitation of G-men and supergangsters, it feels driven nevertheless to eerie heights of implausibility in search of new twists. Sylvia Sidney, naïve proprietress of a roadside restaurant, falls in love with a winning stranger (Alan Baxter) only to learn, when he begins discharging firearms, that he is Public Enemy No. A1. She is accused of aiding his escape, bullied into a false confession, sent to prison. To trap Baxter the G-men rig up an elaborate escape for Miss...
...Angeles, Cinemactress Katharine Hepburn and Princess Natalie Paley worked on a scene for Sylvia Scarlett in which Miss Hepburn was required to save the Princess from a raging sea. Cinemactress Hepburn rescued Princess Paley according to the script but not until she had been so severely buffeted about by waves that she herself had to be given emergency treatment by coworkers. Shrewd RKO cameramen quickly photographed the scene. RKO publicists were pleased when news agencies gave out photographs of fat Director George Cukor bringing Miss Hepburn a tumbler of whiskey...
...Shapley's announcement followed upon the completion of the largest existing catalogue of external galaxies, issued today, and tabulated during the past five years by Miss Sylvia Mussells of the astronomical staff...