Word: warner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that its ingenue, Mary Brian, not only looks like Ruby Keeler but has obviously been coached to. speak in the same soft monotone. The surprising aspect of Moonlight and Pretzels is that it makes plausible Hollywood's profound conviction that repetition is the secret of success. It copies Warner Brothers' two hits even to the extent of being handsome and amusing...
Voltaire (Warner) is an historical picture in the grand manner, with powdered wigs, conversations behind curtains, a package of letters from the King of Prussia and George Arliss in unbecoming knee breeches. Count de Sarnac (Alan Mowbray) is the greedy Minister of Finance to Louis XV (Reginald Owen). Because Voltaire (George Arliss) writes tracts denouncing his heavy taxes, the Count tries to bring him into disfavor with the King- unsuccessfully because the King enjoys Voltaire's conversation and Mme Pompadour (Doris Kenyon) finds him entertaining...
Mary Stevens, M.D. (Warner Brothers). "They say that being a doctor is a man's job. I'm wondering what a man would have done in a case like this." When Dr. Mary Stevens (Kay Francis) makes this comment, she has just used one of her hairpins to extract a diaper-fastener from an infant's larynx. It is one of the few incidents in the picture that really concerns the professional problems of a female physician. The rest of Mary Stevens, M.D. is about Mary Stevens' non-professional activities which are almost entirely unfortunate...
Dedicated to the theory that cinemas should be timely, Warner Brothers doubtless found this one particularly apropos because Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had recently bought the rights to Ann Vickers, Sinclair Lewis' study of a professional woman. Marred by signs of haste in production, it contains, like many recent Warner pictures, bits of first-class writing. Dr. Stevens' assistant Glenda (Glenda Farrell), an energetic girl with a warm heart and a sharp tongue, is an expertly invented character. So is the most consistent visitor at Dr. Stevens' clinic for children, a proudly despondent young Hebrew named Sanford (Sidney...
After weeks of tubthumping, oratory, advertisements in Variety, arguments with directors and actors to get them to sign new contracts in time to appear on company rosters, the major producers (except Warner's and United Artists, whose conferences have not yet been held) announced a total of 301 pictures, divided as follows...