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Loew's State--Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks in their first all-talking picture, "The Taming of the Shrew...
...those in the burned building were unreduplicable parts of pictures now in production-the whole negative of Jazz Heaven, two days work on Dance Hall, the complete negative of The Vagabond Lover (starring girl-crazing Rudy Vallee) and Night Parade. Every existing negative of Douglas Fairbanks' and Mary Pickford's The Taming of the Shrew was rumored to have been destroyed. Then somebody found they had been taken out just before the fire. About $2,000,000 worth of prints made from the stored negatives were burned up, but that was all. Assured that burning cinema film breeds...
...fairly good athlete, taller and heavier than he looks in his pictures; in spite of his size he wants to make a cinema of Rostand's L'Aiglon, playing the little prince. After being engaged for two years to Joan Crawford, whom his father and stepmother, Mary Pickford, were rumored not to like much, he married her last spring in Manhattan. Some of his pictures : A Woman of Affairs, The Barker, Fast Life...
Married. Mrs. Lotta Rupp (Cinemactress Lottie Pickford); to one Russell O. Gillard, Los Angeles undertaker; in Hollywood. It was Mrs. Rupp's third marriage. After her first divorce (1920) she proclaimed she would not marry again "even if the man had golden wings and a diamond halo...
...Asked why he and his wife planned to make a cinema of any classic as frankly boisterous as The Taming of the Shrew, Douglas Fairbanks said last week: "So much has been written about the romance and marriage of Mary Pickford and myself, and so much of it has been oversweet, that to have filmed a romantic lovestory would have been, to say the least, bad taste...