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...Love (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This adaptation from Les Mains d'Orlac by Maurice Renard is one of the most completely horrible stories of the year. It presents Peter Lorre as a maniac surgeon who can do anything with a scalpel but nothing at all with Yvonne Orlac (Frances Drake), an actress who has no use for him because she loves her pianist husband, Stephen (Colin Clive). When Stephen's hands are mangled in a railroad wreck, Dr. Gogol (Lorre) replaces them with the hands of a murderer who has that day been guillotined. Thereafter the hands of Orlac...
Escapade (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the result of superimposing upon the pattern of Viennese waltz-time romance the kind of highly contemporary comedy of which William Powell is currently Hollywood's ablest exponent. That the result is mildly entertaining is thanks partly to Powell, partly to Director Robert Z. Leonard, but mostly to a totally unknown cinemactress named Luise Rainer. Miss Rainer is Leopoldine Major, private companion to an aging Viennese duchess. She is peremptorily whisked out of the obscurity of her position when a dashing young artist (Powell), compelled for reasons of gallantry to conceal the name...
...spies. But police could not get evidence against him. Once his house was raided while he was dining the buyers of a stolen necklace; police found nothing, because "Cammi" dropped the necklace in his soup, calmly went on with his dinner. But when in 1913 "Cammi" Grizzard stole the Mayer pearls, worth ?123,000, he had to depend on unreliable allies to help dispose of them, and loud-mouthed Leisir Gutwirth gave him away. Amateur Detectives Brandstatter and Quadratstein led Gutwirth on, posed as buyers until they got in touch with Scotland Yard. Coached by detectives, a French diamond merchant...
...thriving agent whose firm now handles more actors, writers and directors than any other in Hollywood. His younger brother David Oliver Selznick worked up to be Producer Ben Schulberg's assistant at Paramount, left Paramount to be production chief at RKO, married a daughter of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Louis B. Mayer, left RKO in 1932 to become an independent producer at MGM. In the last year, David Selznick has been itching to leave M-G-M to form a company of his own. Last month, when Twentieth Century Pictures quit United Artists to merge with Fox, Hollywood...
...More Ladies (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) shows Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery and Franchot Tone, a variety of white chromium modernistic interiors, a welter of cynical badinage over cocktails and cigarets, the complications of rich idle adultery. It is a pleasant, witty time-waster...