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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sins of Man (Twentieth Century-Fox). Sad, simple and superfluous, this picture depicts the mishaps of one Christopher Freyman (Jean Hersholt), bell ringer in the Tyrolean town of Zanebruck. Christopher's wife dies, his younger son is deaf & dumb, his elder son gets killed in a plane crash, Zanebruck is wiped out by a war bombardment and, by 1935, poor old Chris is no more than a Manhattan bottle-washer. His deaf son, cured by the roar of guns, then turns out to be a great composer, recognizable to his sire by a symphony, The Cathedral Most lugubrious shot...
Total number of feature pictures scheduled for U. S. release next season is 912. Of these 485 will be made by major companies, 427 by minor and foreign producers. Paramount's quota is largest: 78 feature pictures, 113 shorts. Second biggest list is Twentieth Century-Fox's: 69 features, 100 shorts...
Little Miss Nobody (Twentieth Century-Fox). With Shirley Temple, Jane Withers and the Quintuplets under exclusive contract, Twentieth Century-Fox currently has a corner on child stars. This situation lays a heavy burden on the firm's scenarists. Little Miss Nobody is evidence to the effect that they are not capable of carrying it without considerable strain. It is a superannuated fable about peewees at the poor farm, a mixture of practical jokery, youthful fixations and hokum melodrama. Caustic little Miss Withers is most successful when, as the black sheep of an orphan asylum, she steals Thanksgiving turkeys from...
Private Number (Twentieth Century-Fox) is that old stage play Common Clay, in which the beautiful young servant girl's love for the handsome collegiate son of her employers runs its course without benefit of clergy. The higher official moral standards of Hollywood bring Matrimony to Ellen (Loretta Young) and Dick (Robert Taylor) quite early in their attachment. He is home for the summer, and she has only lately taken service under Wroxton (Basil Rathbone), a tyrannical butler who collects a personal assessment, sometimes amatory, from the employes he engages for the Winfields. Failing to collect from Ellen, Wroxton...
Birthdays. Annette, Cecile, Emilie, Marie and Yvonne Dionne, 2. Already worth $250,000, they received, for three prospective cinemas, $250.000 from Twentieth-Century Fox Films, a lien of 10% on their box-office receipts. They are expected to be worth...