Word: tod
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dancing Lady (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A burlesque dancer named Janie Barlow (Joan Crawford) meets a jaunty young socialite named Tod Newton (Franchot Tone). He sees to it that she gets a front line position in the chorus of a deluxe revue. The revue's dance director (Clark Gable) observes that she has talent and enthusiasm, makes her the star...
...dark creative fervors, the dance director presently hears that his backer has withdrawn his support because the young socialite wants his inamorata to be, not an actress, but his companion on a trip to Cuba. As vapid a snip as has ever disgraced his class in the cinema, Tod seems vaguely hurt because Janie, when she learns what subterfuges he has used, goes back to the musicomedy which the dance director is financing from his own pocket, helps the opening night to be completely gala...
Fast Workers (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) bears a superficial resemblance to the tough comedies popularized by Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen; it is not really the same sort of picture. Tod Browning is a director who has always been fascinated by the macabre. John Gilbert, completing with this film an expensive contract which he signed before talkies demolished his box-office value, is determined to make his last cinema characterizations as ugly as his early ones were sleek. The story is about a steel worker (Gilbert) who humiliates a mistress (Mae Clark) whom he really loves because he thinks...
Thomas Bewick, the teacher of Blake, is represented by his cuts in "British Birds," a book printed in 1707 in New castle. Woodcutting in the early nineteenth century us shown by the large tenth century is shown by the large "Der Tod als Freund" by Alfred Rethel...
...real sporting events at Manhattan's famed arena (which does not resemble a garden and is about two miles from Madison Square). An exact replica of the Garden marquee was made in Hollywood and reappears constantly. The faces of Jack Johnson, Stanislaus Zbyszko, Tommy Ryan, Billy Papke and Tod Sloan are introduced briefly; they represent the tradition of clean, wholesome sport. The picture was made during the Olympic Games at Los Angeles and it was therefore feasible for Paramount to persuade several real sportswriters to perform in it. Grantland Rice, Westbrook Pegler, Paul Gallico. Damon Runyon. Jack Lait appear...