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Although Whistling is Comic Skelton's first starring performance, it is by no means his best. His masterpiece is on ice at M.G.M. Made a year or so ago as a screen test, it turned out so slaphappily (mainly because of its doughnut-dunking sequence) that down-in-the-mouth producers, directors and such at the studio are forever running it off when they need some laughs...
...around $20,000 for nine weeks' work as technical adviser for an RKO film called Passage from Bordeaux (adapted from a novelette by Budd Schulberg). Shirer was offered a small part in this refugee drama as a radio broadcaster but turned it down on the grounds that his screen face is depressing...
...involved three separate operations, three separate negatives, has cost the amateur about $2 per 2¼ by 3¼ in. picture. Most color photographers have been content with kodachromes, which are not prints at all but transparencies which must be held up to the light or projected on a screen to be seen...
...Government is made the subject of discussion; orders are often being ill-executed. In an atmosphere of false rumors and intrigues the forces of reconstruction are growing discouraged. . . . The national revolution . . . has not yet forced its way through because between the people and me . . . there has risen a double screen of those favoring the old regime and those serving trusts. The troops of the old regime are legion. . . . We must start in now to smash their undertakings by decimating their leaders...
Closest Ann came to the screen at Metro was lending her voice to the sound track of a dog comedy. She posed for innumerable publicity stills (says she: "damnedest leg art you ever saw"), inadvertently landed a part in the chorus of the Broadway musical Smiles, played innumerable simpering glamor-girl parts for Columbia and RKO, in 1937 was out of work. Nice handling of a part as a dumb stenographer in Trade Winds, after a year's separation from the cinema, brought her to the attention of Producer Ruben...