Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Universal) is a bravely reburnished, expertly tinkered new version of an old story that looks like a trailer for Hollywood's current economy complex...
Last week he popped up again with a novel, Mars in the House of Death, and an account of where he has been all this time. He quit Hollywood because: 1) doctors told him the pace would kill him shortly, 2) he felt he was getting in a rut. Well-heeled (he got about $125,000 a picture, plus 25% of profits), he bought Ciné studios in Nice, decided to travel. Until two years ago, when he settled in Mexico, he had lived in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria, Spain, Egypt, learned Arabic, got 20 pieces of his own sculpture...
Meanwhile Rex Ingram turned down many a good job in Hollywood, determined not to go back until he finds a story "I know, understand, believe in." His own novel is out of the question, he declares: the censors would make mincemeat of it. Evidently influenced by Hemingway (Rex Ingram's favorite author), Mars in the House of Death traces the short life of a famed bullfighter named Chuchito, illegitimate son of a Spanish nobleman and a gypsy dancer, who grows up among Andalusian fighting bulls and Barcelona harlots, falls in love (innocently) with his half-sister while having...
...cigars, hates to ride in airplanes, says he needs very little money to get along on. To people who ask him if he doesn't get bored with so little work to do, Rex Ingram replies that he only started to work when he quit his job in Hollywood...
...Hollywood assembly line have come two pictures that are now serving their time at the University, "The Angels Wash Their Faces," and "Hotel For Women." The motion picture industry, wondering what has caused the stagnation in box office during the past few years, might well look into those two pictures and see the reason why. Each was carried out with technical skill, with good direction and good pacing, with reasonably capable casts. Yet they lacked one essential element--originality...