Word: warner
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Four Daughters (First National-Warner Bros.). Screen plays for actresses (like Shirley Temple) are far easier to provide than screen plays for entire families (like the Dionne quintuplets). Warner Brothers screenwriters, their hands full with Billy and Bobby Mauch, sighed last year when the studio signed Priscilla and Rosemary Lane, whose chief acting experience had been with Fred Waring...
Four's A Crowd (Warner Bros.) includes a trunkful of characters now fashionable in screen comedies: a madcap millionaire (Walter Connolly) with a passion for toy trains; his lovely granddaughter (Olivia de Havilland), so bored with mercenary suitors that she longs to meet a man who hates her; a livewire pressagent (Errol Flynn), who organizes a newspaper campaign to destroy the millionaire's good name, hoping thus to get hired to restore it; a dim-witted publisher (Patric Knowles) and his highly intelligent star reporter (Rosalind Russell), who are in love respectively with the heiress and the pressagent...
Died. Pearl White, 41, and Warner Oland, 57, respectively heroine and villain of The Fatal Ring, Wartime cinema serial thriller; Miss White in Paris of a liver ailment, Mr. Oland in Stockholm of bronchopneumonia. Throughout her career as serial queen, Miss White never used a double, never visited Hollywood. Mr. Oland, who often threatened cinema death to daring, cliff-hanging Heroine White, won further fame as Detective Charlie Chan in a recent series of mystery films; Miss White in 1921 retired to Paris with a fortune...
Army Girl (Republic). Neatly directed, fast-moving action picture in which the novel theme is conflict between an army inspector (Preston Foster) and an old-line officer (H. B. Warner), engendered by plans to mechanize the latter's cavalry post...
...street clothes, sit in luxurious offices, hold conferences around shiny tables and concern themselves primarily with Ideas. Producers' ideas are mostly about money. Top producers in Hollywood currently are Twentieth Century-Fox's small, dynamic Darryl Zanuck, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's aging, pompous Louis B. Mayer, Warner Brothers' Harry Wrarner and Hal Wallis, Jock Whitney's placid David Oliver Selznick, United Artists' socially conscious Walter Wanger and legendary Sam Goldwyn. Producers may be onetime writers, theatre owners, book peddlers or glove salesmen. Their pay runs from $1,000 weekly...