Word: cinderella
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slick, entertaining film of a modern Cinderella, The Gilded Lily moves plausibly through many plot impossibilities with Miss Colbert looking extraordinarily beautiful in chic Travis Banton frocks. Fred MacMurray, onetime jazz-band leader, dark-browed and handsome in his first leading role, is obviously nervous in some scenes but does, on the whole, creditable work and will probably be hailed as Hollywood's new great lover. Pleasantly directed by Wesley Ruggles, this film just misses being a worthy successor to It Happened One Night, to which it will undoubtedly be compared...
...three or four high-priced serials a year may be called. But just as one day in her native California is much like another, even when it comes to anniversary days, so her fiftieth book, Woman in Love, resembles all the other Kathleen Norris books. It has the usual Cinderella heroine, with nice looks, good impulses, a warm heart and high-minded scruples...
This time Cinderella is called Tamara Todhunter. Convent-bred (Mrs. Norris is a Catholic), Tamara goes forth into a wicked world with resolutions about life that do not stand up when a honey-tongued cinemactor comes a-wooing. Trouble arrives with the child of their illicit union, but virtue triumphs when Tamara gets herself an honest-to-goodness husband named George who is willing to be a father by proxy...
Before the presses that had spread the luscious face of Harvard's Cinderella over the newsprint to furnish prime fodder for the dusky sweepers of Boston's subways, had cooled, the Daily Record triumphantly announced that the next in its series of true confessions would be the glamorous love story of Norma Brighton Millen. Not satisfied with the chance of exploiting the comely bride of the Needham bank-robber in a legitimate fashion, the Record sought its more devious and revealing method...
...Shubert. At the head of a pretentious cast is the Viennese prima donna, Mme. Jeritza, famous for her voice and blonde hair. The story holds true to the tradition of light opera both in having its setting in the lazy and carefree Vienna of Francis Joseph, and in the Cinderella motiff which is the basis of the plot. With the singing of Jeritza, the undoubted musical ability of Mr. Friml, and the elaborate production that is promised, the opening of "Annina" should be a notable...