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Bobby Jones's first picture, The Putter, was released by Warner last week. With Golfing Actors Richard Barthelmess and Frank Craven, Jones explains how to putt. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer will make other sport shorts, including one of track games featuring Frank Wykoff, famed sprinter. To Helen Wills Moody has been offered, it is rumored, a $150,000 contract...
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, wheel-horses of Manhattan's Theatre Guild, Helen Hayes, pudgy emotional actress, Bert Lahr, loud-voiced comic, and Jimmy Durante, long-nosed, button-eyed master of ceremonies who makes up his own gags, will work for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Lunt & Fontanne's first picture will probably be Private Lives...
...their secretaries; hundreds of millions of dollars worth of directors, writers, actors, technicians were re-engaged; resounding phrases were thumped like drums - "banner year . . . ," "greatest ever. . . ." Out of all of which the principal producers promised the following number of full-length films for 1931-32: Fox 48 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 48 Paramount 70 Warner Bros. 35 First National 35 RKO Radio 36 RKO Pathe 21 Columbia 26 Producers do not consider that television will come into contact with films for a long time yet. Paramount believes more pictures should have children in them and more attention should be paid...
...Tailor Made Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). William Haines is one of those actors who have committed themselves to a specialty and are obliged to stick to it. The story, selected because it was in the Haines formula, is the old one about the pants presser who starts on his way to success by stealing a customer's dress suit and wearing it to a party. He is in love with his boss's daughter, Dorothy Jordan. When he has abruptly achieved eminence as manager of a department store, a job given him by a millionaire whom his social...
Strangers May Kiss (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is one of those handsomely staged, well-acted, rather silly productions which confound critics who try to reveal their silliness. The story is by Ursula Parrott, author of famed Ex-Wife; it will probably gross several million dollars. Norma Shearer is a working girl who says, "A girl may kiss and ride on as well as any man." Yet when Neil Hamilton, her journalist lover, companion of an illicit weekend in Mexico, says a casual goodbye to her, she is seen in one of those rapid sequences indicating a shattering of feminine morale...