Word: tashman
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...produced a story which will make cinema seers feel content that winners of the Nobel and other awards have not so far been hired to compose operettas. It is about a flower girl who, masquerading as a notorious cabaret entertainer, wins the love of John Boles. The singer (Lilyan Tashman) has been exiled by the police from Budapest to the familiar Hungarian musical comedy steppes?a district of palaces, vineyards, and extemporary duets. Going as substitute, the flower girl is wooed by an important local grandee who judges her character by what he has heard about Miss Tashman. Evelyn Laye...
Victor McLaglen's latest contribution to the all-talkie, all-sexy form of dramatic art is "On the Level", now showing at the B. F. Keith's Memorial Theatre. The virility of Herr McLaglen is very adequately balanced by the Misses Fifi Dorsay and Lilyan Tashman. Between these three, the iron workers Union, and Palisades Park, the director has managed to turn out a fairly amusing picture...
...Miss Tashman contributes some highly insinuating sex appeal which was rivaled by the considerable expenditure of the same commodity by Miss Dorsay. Mr. McLaglen himself plays a rather negative part in the midst of these pyro-technics, but he manages to come through in the end with his good humor and incidentally the fifty thousand dollars...
...highly conventional film musical comedy, but so well produced and ably cast that if its lines and situations were new it would be the year's best picture of its kind. Irving Berlin's tunes, and such smart players as Joan Bennett, James Gleason, Aileen Pringle, and Lilyan Tashman are arranged in support of Harry Richman, Manhattan night-club entertainer, who has never made a picture before and who is suspected of having negotiated his engagement to Actress Clara Bow to make the cinema public curious to see him. The story concerns a song-plugger who forgot his old friends...
...host of stars and near-stars that oven though the theme of the picture revolves around the constant marital bickerings of a rich and sophisticated couple the production can be easily classed among the list of better talkies. Mary Brian, Kay, Francis, Frederick March, Huntley Gordon and Lilian Tashman, not to forget five rampant little children,- all lend their personalities to the show to lift it from the rank of just ordinary movies. The youthful Miss Brian and Mr. March have the leads but the quintet of children, vivacious and at all times natural, almost steal the show from...