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...attention of adult cinemaddicts because its star, Paul Muni, having won last March the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences' award for the most distinguished performance of 1936 (The Story of Louis Pasteur), can be considered, at least until next March, the First Actor of the U.S. Screen...
...Life of Emile Zola is an original treatment for the screen of the career of a great 19th-Century French novelist whose name will be less familiar to most of the cinema public than the great 19th-Century French scientist whom Muni characterized so successfully last year. It is not with Zola the novelist that the story concerns itself, but with Zola the man who blew the lid off the greatest political scandal of its time, France's famed L'Affaire Dreyfus...
...wife (Gale Sondergaard) begs his aid. All his old fighting instincts aroused, Zola writes his famous editorial J'accuse ("I accuse"), charging the army with conspiracy and daring anyone to try him for treason. The army takes the dare. Zola's trial lasts 30 minutes on the screen, with speeches longer than cinemaddicts are supposed by most Hollywood producers to be willing to hear. Zola's rhetoric is no match for the mass of lying evidence and the judge's prejudice. Convicted, he flees to England. But presently a new French Government orders the Dreyfus case...
...hilltop home in Palos Verde, where he swims in his pool, plays with his dog and looks through a telescope at ships on the Pacific. He is never seen in Hollywood nightspots and takes no part in actors' disputes. He attended the mass meeting of the Screen Actors Guild last May but sat among the extras and left by the side door. He wears black hats turned up all the way around like a rabbi's, occasionally a beret...
Last week in Equity's Manhattan offices there met with Frank Gillmore the heads of all A. A. A. A. unions, among them Screen Actors' Executive Secretary Kenneth Thomson, an ambitious B-picture cinemactor whose talents as organizer have exceeded his talents on the screen. When the meeting was over, Equity no longer had the leading role in the theatrical unionization show. A new strong A. A. A had come forth to play the part. ' That part will consist in being pretty much the One Big Union of show busines assuming full responsibility for jurisdictional disputes, integrating...