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...bugle to call retreat. That male Wampas Baby Star is becoming an actor What has inspired this transformation, Heaven only knows, but "Remember?" is a darn good show, and Robert Taylor has done more than his part to make it so. True, he has plenty of help. The script clicks with every quip, carries the audience on through one fine comedy sequence after another and ends up with one of the funniest last-lines in film history. Mrs. Chips, alias Greer Garson, and Lew Ayres form the other two corners of the triangle with unexpected gusto. In fact the whole...
Born. To Mrs. Alyce Correll and Charles (Andy) Correll of Amos 'n' Andy: their second child, a daughter; in Los Angeles' Cedars of Lebanon Hospital, where the radio team established script headquarters for the emergency...
...involved as "Another Thin Man" would be run out of college by the Dean's Office. Sinister characters wander across the screen throwing knives and shooting each other in bewildering confusion. Of course, by the end of the picture, the whole plot is very simple,--to William Powell. But script-writers, playing their merry game of hide-and-seek-the-murderer with the audience, seem to have overstepped the bounds of sportsmanship and produce plots to confound even the mightiest mental power-house...
...American Wild West. "Destry Rides Again," her latest vehicle, presents her in a rough and tumble burlesque of the dime quickies of the twenties. Dietrich, it will be generally conceded, has certain natural qualifications for the job of combination Mac West and Alice Faye: Hollywood has provided a script in the right mood; and the result is a motion picture capable of popularizing anything in a dress (Shirley Temple and the Dionne Quintuplets perhaps excepted...
...gutty part which other actresses shun, but in which Miss Davis seems to revel. But her dashing Essex, Errol Flynn, moons through his scenes like a self-conscious school boy. And as if this were not enough of an indignity, the adapters of the play have handed her a script which has been completely stripped of its poetic beauty. It seems a pity that the screen did not have the daring to use Mr. Anderson's blank verse which was so effective when the play ran on Broadway a few years ago. This was almost a fine picture rather than...