Word: celluloid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carried it through to Garcia. Along with being able to sing tap-dance play the piano, imitate Roosevelt, and other odd jobs, it might even he said that Rooney can act. His introduction to the problem of smoking a cigar is one of the funniest scenes put on Celluloid in a long time. He is even allowed to go through a tolerable love scene now that the Hays office has found out that the younger generation clinches once or twice before they're twenty-five. All in all, "Babes in Arms" is a top-flight musical, has a plot with...
...fire and dash of Dumas' book have been taken out of the print and put into celluloid with remarkable skill. The fire, or at least the heat, emanates principally from Joan Bennett, who is making a noble effort to cash in on the Technique Lamarr with a black wig and a sultry eye. Though she's no Hedy, she'll do. The dash is supplied by Louis Hayward who really carries the show. With two vividly contrasting parts to work with, he has ample opportunity to prove himself a persuasive actor,--and he does...
...that remained in Poland last week was aftermath: mopping up, repairs, the sorting of truth from falsehood. One truth reached Manhattan with a famed world traveler and free-lance photographer, Julien Bryan. That it was a truth no one could doubt, for Photographer Bryan had recorded it in grim celluloid and emulsion...
...Carnival (United Artists-Walter Wanger). Ann Sheridan, born Clara Lou Sheridan in Dallas, Tex. 24 years ago, left college for Hollywood when she won a Paramount "Search for Beauty" contest in her neighborhood in 1933. After two years on the Paramount payroll, during which she failed to set any celluloid on fire, she was dropped, spent a year looking for a job. Warner Bros, put her under contract in 1936. Last year the Warners, envious with the rest of Hollywood of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's glamorous Hedy Lamarr, started circulating glamorous photographs of Ann Sheridan, her red hair dyed...
...such celluloid researchers, Second Fiddle, which brings Sonja to Hollywood and wraps her in the toils of a publicity romance with Rudy Vallée-a scheme concocted by Pressagent Tyrone Power-will be full of delicious possibilities. For, as Sonja's fans well know, the liveliest Hollywood buzz-buzz of 1937 concerned her studio romance with Tyrone Power, cooked up by no pressagent but by smart little Darryl Zanuck himself. Actually, Second Fiddle is no more of a personal history than any other Henie movie. Like its predecessors, it is an artfully contrived showcase for the display...