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Born. To Irving Grant Thalberg, an executive of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Stu- dios, and Cinemactress Norma Shearer; at the Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles; a boy. Weight...
Every year Film Daily asks cinema critics to pick the ten directors they liked best. Last week the last ballot was counted. Elections: 1) Alfred E. Green of Warner (Disraeli, The Green Goddess, The Man from Blankley's); 2) King Vidor of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Hallelujah, Not So Dumb); 3) Clarence Brown of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Anna Christie, Wonder of Women) ; 4) Lionel Barrymore of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (Madame X, His Glorious Night). Others: Ernst Lubitsch, Roy Del Ruth, Herbert Brenon, James Whale, Frank Lloyd, Sidney Franklin. Good directors not placed: Raoul Walsh, Dorothy Arzner, Edmund Goulding, Frank Borzage...
...well known as I am, I don't ask to see a part before I take it. I take what I'm given and do the best I can." She believes in astrology, dislikes flappers, lives in the Ambassador Hotel, Los Angeles. Recently Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer made her a star. Her next picture will be The Dark Star...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This fragile but witty drawing room piece, successful on the Manhattan stage last year, is the sort of thing that the talking cinema in its present stage of development can do best. No Hollywood hack writing has been permitted to change the thread of the story, although the prelude of unhappy married life has been elaborated. Norma Shearer takes two parts-first a dowdy wife whose husband is tiring of her, and later, with an astonishing and somewhat overdramatic change in personality, a seductive divorcee. At a house-party given by an elderly woman...
Author Jacques Deval, 37, Parisian, is in Hollywood superintending French talkies for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This is his third trip to the U. S. Of himself, he-says: "I am not a humorist. I am a merry pessimist." He has written several plays, of which one, Her Cardboard Lover, has been produced...