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...musical comedy (Grand Street Follies)., legitimate plays (Women Go on Forever and Outside Looking In for which he was selected because he had red hair). His 1930 performance, opposite Joan Blondell, in Penny Arcade, got him to Hollywood, which, since talkies, has been the final up-step for an actor's progress. Noted for his impersonations of unscrupulous and philandering heroes, he is less airy when out of the camera's eye. Recently in a Hollywood cafe he was roundly cuffed by Mrs. James Cagney for looking at another lady. Last autumn he won a celebrated salary argument...
...plane rushed from San Francisco to Los Angeles last week with serum for Actor Mix, 51, who lay dangerously ill of peritonitis following an appendectomy...
...best scene of the picture, he hits his leading lady with an open hand. Thirty years old, he has had three wives, all older than himself. The present Mrs. Gable, whom he married twice, is 40. Every one knows that he receives more fan letters than any other male actor in Hollywood, smokes a pipe, likes horses, hopes to retire in ten years. He looks a little young for his role in Possessed but he gives a sharp, competent performance...
...Married, Constance Bennett, cinemactress, daughter of Actor Richard Bennett; and Henri, Marquis de la Falaise de la Coudraye, divorced husband of cinemactress Gloria Swanson; in Los Angeles...
...long as Paramount can find plots requiring the services of a hard-boiled; quick spoken character actor, Edward G. Robinson should be walking on air. Gangster, gambler, or, in this case, managing editor of a tabloid, Robinson plays his roles with a rough and ready simplicity that makes the audience forget the screen and follow merely the actions and dialogue of the protagonists. In "Five Star Final" he brings new highs in circulation figures to his tabloid by featuring a scandal of the past which forces the survivors to commit suicide rather than have their shame ruin a daughter...