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...Producer Samuel Goldwyn paid Anna Sten $1,500 a week for doing what...
...Anna Sten (real name Anjuschka Stenski) was born in Kiev in 1910. Her father was a Russian dancer. Her mother was a Swede. Anna Sten became a movie actress at 15. Since then the principal complications of her career have been linguistic...
Nana (United Artists) is Emile Zola's story about a Parisian gutter-lily, gilded by Samuel Goldwyn. When first seen Nana (Anna Sten) is a scrubgirl, soapily eager to be glamorous and rich. As a first step toward this goal she pushes a drunken soldier into the troutpool of a sidewalk cafe. Her act so delights an impressionable theatrical manager (Richard Bennett) with Belasco manners and Minsky talent, that he makes her his mistress, teaches her to be a torchsinger...
Like most Goldwyn pictures, Nana was far more expensive than the finished product would suggest. As released this week it represents an investment of about $1,000,000. Anna Sten had to be taught English before production could begin. A version of the picture directed by George Fitzmaurice was scrapped, after being two-thirds finished, because it was over-conscientiously acted. As a build-up for Anna Sten United Artists launched a lavish advertising campaign consisting of daily newspaper "teasers"-Sten portraits with no text except her name and one word to describe her varying expressions ("Mysterious," "Fascinating," "Glamorous," "Worldly...
Died, Frank Ellis Campbell. 61, famed Manhattan undertaker, director of the funerals of Rudolph Valentino, Jeanne Eagels, Oscar Hammerstein. William Dean Howells, Anna Held, Yernon Castle, Frank W. Woolworth, Texas Guinan, Fatty Arbuckle, Francesco de Pinedo and many another celebrity; of heart disease; in Manhattan. Born in Illinois, he sawed casket lumber for a local undertaker, went to Manhattan with no money, plenty of ideas. He was credited with introducing the "funeral church," motorized hearses, scattering ashes from airplanes, high-pressure publicity ("A simple and refined service, suitable for all persons"). He had nine Rolls-Royces and three chauffeurs...