Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Marriage Playground (Paramount). What happens to children in families that have a penchant for divorces was the subject of a novel (The Children) by Edith Wharton which this picture reproduces faithfully. Mrs. Wharton's professional, knowingly maternal sympathy, her bookish characters, even the glossy feeling of her style, are in The Marriage Playground. It is handsomely staged, conscientiously acted, unreal, inane. Numerous precocious stage children do their specialties as Mary Brian, the oldest and best-looking of the family, gives them their cues. Silliest shot: the cocktail council on the beach...
Half Way to Heaven (Paramount...
...Marriage Playground", movie adaptation of Edith Wharton's novel of the game name, Paramount has assembled such a host of stars and near-stars that oven though the theme of the picture revolves around the constant marital bickerings of a rich and sophisticated couple the production can be easily classed among the list of better talkies. Mary Brian, Kay, Francis, Frederick March, Huntley Gordon and Lilian Tashman, not to forget five rampant little children,- all lend their personalities to the show to lift it from the rank of just ordinary movies. The youthful Miss Brian and Mr. March have...
...Love Parade (Paramount). When Adolphe Menjou, dismayed by the prospect of playing in talking films, left Hollywood and went to live in Paris, this picture, which had been written for him, was made over for Maurice Chevalier. A captain of the Guards who marries a Queen finds that his share in the government of Sylvania is limited to what he can do in a boudoir. It is a boldly amorous, decorative, at times amusing combination of drawing-room farce and Balkan operetta. Chevalier does well with songs that would be dull under less skillful handling. Director Ernst Lubitsch has arranged...
...Saturday Night Kid (Paramount). As Stage Producer Jed Harris' first play, when it was called Love 'Em and Leave 'Em, this was a gentle story about some young people who worked in a department store?two sisters and the youth they were competing for. It has been made into a satisfactory program picture that was advertised at some houses last week without a title in the firesign, being indicated simply as "Clara Bow's Latest." The Saturday Night Kid is a better product than such emphasis on its star's drawing-power seems to imply. Although the plot is composed...