Word: screening
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hedy Lamarr in Algiers, it is plain that M.G.M. is on the side of M. Delaroch. In mood and decor, Lady of the Tropics is a faithful echo of the Wanger picture that introduced Cinemactress Lamarr to the U. S., made her the most celebrated siren of the screen since Theda Bara. After spending a small fortune on a picture with Spencer Tracy that had to be junked, M.G.M. handed Hedy and Screenwriter Ben Hecht over to Producer Sam Zimbalist, fresh from Tarzan Finds A Son. Practical Mr. Zimbalist, correctly figuring that audiences would like a picture as much like...
...oldtime Comedienne Sophie Tucker, 55, who as its non-salaried president stuck by Mr. Whitehead and loyally condoned his switch to Stagehand Browne. For this she was suspended by all-powerful Equity and other subsidiaries of Four As (barring her in effect from stage, screen and radio), pitied by Thespians who concluded that Sophie at last was showing...
With his income from racing tipster sheets and a national leased wire service that furnished odds and payoff prices, Moe Annenberg branched out. He began publishing Radio Guide, Screen Guide, Official Detective Stories, Click. Three years ago he bought the respectable old Inquirer, and since then he has shown more & more reticence about his activities on the other side of the tracks. He has played the public-spirited publisher in Philadelphia by declaring the Inquirer's political independence, the honest-minded publisher by printing the news of his tax troubles on the front page...
...Wizard of Oz (M. G. M.) should settle an old Hollywood controversy: whether fantasy can be presented on the screen as successfully with human actors as with cartoons. It can. As long as The Wizard of Oz sticks to whimsey and magic, it floats in the same rare atmosphere of enchantment that distinguished Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. When it descends to earth it collapses like a scarecrow in a cloudburst...
...outwardly as dated and dusty as a daguerreotype. To bring Edith Wharton's old-fashioned story to life on Broadway four years ago required the highly finished services of Actresses Judith Anderson and Helen Menken, oldtime Playwright Zoë Akins. To make it live on the screen, Warner Bros, teamed their pop-eyed Bernhardt, Bette Davis, with an equally fiery filly from off the home lot, honey-haired Miriam Hopkins. The result flounces its skirts a little more boldly than the stage show but, like it, is hardly more than the sum total of two good, sometimes brilliant, performances...