Bits About The Talkie Players Of 1934 Hollywood
Hollywood gossip piece from late 1933 previews upcoming motion picture plans. It lists actors such as Lionel Barrymore Gloria Stuart and Mae Robson, discusses color and 3D prospects, marriages rumored for 1944, and notes on Metro Goldwyn Mayer productions and staff movements in a period tone.
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Rouben Mamoulian
Joan Crawford
Douglas Fairbanks Jr
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Miss Crawford
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Lee Tracy
Miss Jewell
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Charlie Chaplin
Chaplin Pictures
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Veree Teasdale
Adolphe Menjou
Rowland Brown
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Walter Disney Essily
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May Robson
Week of New York Theaters Presents Star Packed Lineup
At the Virginian and Rialto, multiple showings feature Joan Brondell Adolphe Menjou Dick Powell Mary Astor and more in convention themed and comedy dramas plus a New Year midnight stage show. Universal Myre and Marge Girl Without a Room and other titles headline through Thursday.
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Joan Brondell
Adolphe Menjou
Dick Powell
Mary Astor
Guy Kibbee
Frank McHugh
Myre
Marge
Universal
Charlies Farrell
Charlie Angeles
Marguerite Churchil
Gregory Ratoff
Walter Woolf
Jack Sals
Red Hair and Wigs Define Theodore Newtons Screen Style
Hollywood gossip notes Theodore Newton, a Broadway recruit, relies on lighting to alter hair color, sometimes appearing blond or darker in different films. His hair's red hue brings both benefits and risks for consistency across roles in From Headquarters and upcoming Dames and Harald Teen projects. Industry chatter links Keeler and Powell to Dames and mentions casting notes, while production moves for Harald Teen proceed.
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Kelene “Dames
Ruby Keeler
Dick Powell
Murray Roth
Stars of Screen and Stage Dream of New Roles
The article surveys actors Lionel Barrymore and Marie Dressler exploring genre shifts. Barrymore seeks dramatic film work after celebrated stage turns, while Dressler, famed for comedy, eyes a challenging dramatic mother role and a Mrs Lecks character from a Frank Norris adaptation, amid talk of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer involvement.
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Zanuck Reaches Eighth Film Pace At Twentieth Century
Darryl Zanuck completes eight pictures in four months as head of Twentieth Century Fox with Joseph Schenck. The Bowery shows strong box office while stars like Ann Harding and Cary Grant join the slate. Zanuck plans five more one by one with personal supervision and targets George Arliss in The House of Rothschild as a marquee opener.
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Ann Harding
Lee Tracy
Wallace Beery
George Raft
Spencer Tract
Cary Grant
Jackie Cooper
Boris Karloff
Franchat Tone
Twentieth Century Pioturies
Cheorge Artiss
Constance Bennett
Loretta Young
George Bancroft
Twentieth Century
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Speatiils
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Zunuck
George Arliss
House of Rothschild
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Loretta Awig
Allan Mowbeuy
Reginald Gwen
Florence
Helen Westley
Murell
Bol
Western Debut of Dinner at Eight Draws Starry Audience
Hollywood’s western premiere of Dinner at Eight drew record crowds and heavy security as luminaries from Mayer to Selznick arrived for the gala. Irving Thalberg and Norma Shearer made rare appearances. Irving Thalberg and Norma Shearer attended after returning from Europe amid praise for the MGM production built around the Oliver La Forge story. The event featured Louis B. Mayer, Marie Dressler, Jack Dempsey, Walter Huston, Jean Harlow, and many others with Glenn Gray on the forecourt and Hall Greyson conducting.
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Jimmy Durante
David O. Selanick
Lee ‘Tracy
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Grace Moore
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May Robson
George Cukor
Hoo’ Gibson
Polly Moran
Irving Gy Thalberg
Norma Shearer
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Johnny Weissmuller
Lupe Velez
Raoul Walsh
Jeanette MacDonald
W. S. van Dyke
Herbert Marshall
Chic Sale
Jean Hereshall
Otto Kruger
Franchot Tone
Elissa Landi
Lionel Barrymore
Gary Cooper
William Haines
Roscoe Ates
Une Merkel
Maaresa O'Sullivan
Elizabeth Allan
Hall Greyson
Cast Chosen For Hamlet by Evelyn Venable All-Star Plan
Evelyn Venable selects an all star lineup for Hamlet with Fredric March as Hamlet Marlene Dietrich or Katherine Hepburn as the queen Irving Pichel as the king Helen Hayes Ophelia Henry Travers Polonius Kent Douglas Horatio Jack Oakie Roscoe Ates grave diggers and Mary Pickford as Juliet Venable argues for natural acting and youth in Shakespeare on film and hints Paramount involvement
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