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...Monte Cristo is one of two productions on the current schedule of a two-year-old Hollywood company which plans to make feature pictures retail instead of wholesale. It is a first-rate translation of one of Dumas' most picturesque stories. In it, a handsome, blond British actor named Robert Donat appears as Dantes, the French officer who, unjustly imprisoned in a dungeon, escapes to find buried treasure on a desert island and returns to outsmart his persecutors. Elissa Landi is Mercedes who, although forced into an unwelcome marriage when her lover goes to jail, remains sufficiently faithful, after...
...Aitkin folks by and large very much like the successful actor whose grandfather was one of the founders of the town, whose parents were highly esteemed residents for many years, whose aunt, Marcia Potter Ross, is carrying on the pioneer department store business the grandfather founded here back...
...hard-working young lawyer in Manhattan, John Davis Lodge went to Hollywood to join his dancer-actress wife, Francesca Braggiotti, who had been duplicating Greta Garbo's voice in Italian and French versions of her films. Paramount officials offered him a screen test and a job. Said Actor Lodge, whose previous dramatic experience had been confined to Le Cercle Frangais and Hasty Pudding shows at Harvard: "I thought the matter over very seriously. There is a great deal of competition among lawyers and it is hard work. My wife is interested in acting and I like the climate of California...
Whatever talents as an actor Henry Cabot Lodge's grandson may have are set off to poor advantage by the picture. A tedious hyperbole in which Director Josef von Sternberg achieved the improbable feat of burying Marlene Dietrich in a welter of plaster-of-paris gargoyles and galloping cossacks, it seems all the more inadequate by comparison with Elizabeth Bergner's Catherine the Great...
...full of fish makes a particularly appropriate vehicle for Warren William's debut as detective. His likeness to John Barrymore is proverbial but he really looks more like a carp. Born Warren William Krech in Aitkin, Minn., he went to France during the War, resumed his career as actor when he returned. He appeared in 26 stage failures, four successes. Last of the four was Vinegar Tree (1930) which got him a cinema contract. Now one of the busiest male stars in Hollywood, he is famed for his profile and his versatility. He has performed in farce (Goodbye Again], satire...