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Judging by the squadrons of bewigged waiters who invaded every bedroom scene and by the insipid acting of Ruth Chatterton, one might say that the private life of Napoleon and Josephine was neither very private nor very lively. In fact, it must have easily been the most prosaic, uninteresting marriage since the birth of modern times...
...Ruth Chatterton proves once again that her career should have ended with the advent of the talkies and that her figure ceased to be alluring some fifteen years ago. As for Pierre Blanchar, he is an unconvincing Napoleon to begin with. A habit of throwing extra r's into every word he utters does not serve to make him any more prepossessing...
Paris was undergoing all the horrors of a literary revolution. Shouting Victor Hugo's war cry, "The rose is as true as the cabbage!", young Romantics were shattering the classical drama. Plays like Hugo's Hernani, Dumas' Antony, Poet de Vigny's Chatterton ravished the intellectuals with lines like "Death to society; Death to reaction!", while white-robed heroines drank poison and bearded young heroes swung daggers...
Brent says he likes to have a good time "when the shades are down." His first marriage to Ruth Chatterton ended in an amiable divorce and Brent's best friend is Ralph Forbes, another Chatterton ex-husband. His second marriage, to one Constance Worth in Mexico, ended in an unamiable divorce. This year Ann Sheridan persuaded him to make his first visit to Giro's, got him to promise to take her to his first premiere. When Brent discovered the premiere was on the night of his weekly navigation class (he recently bought a new 85-ft. yawl...
...chewing, fuzzy-voiced Actress Chatterton, 46, dimpled her way to fame on Broadway as Little Orphan Judy in soppy Daddy Long-Legs, kept climbing with young-girl parts in Come Out of the Kitchen, Mary Rose. Leaving Broadway in 1925, she acted for a while in San Francisco, wound up in Hollywood. There, in the early days of the talkies, she clicked as one of the few who knew how to talk. There she was as much typed for fallen women roles (Madame X, Once a Lady, Frisco Jenny) as she had been for sweet young things on Broadway. After...