Joe E Brown Learns Chinese on Polo Joe Set
Hollywood correspondent recalls Joe E Brown during filming of Polo Joe. He learns real Chinese phrases while practicing tricks with spoons and tumblers, tutored by a Chinese gentleman off set. Gallagher bets against him as Dick Powell and Marion Davies star in Hearts Divided at the Virginian.
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Polo Joe
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Dick Powell Stars in Royal Love Affair at Virginian
Marion Davies leads Hearts Divided in a lavish production with Powell as the hero. Scenes unfold in Baltimore and Washington, with Napoleonic era settings and a romance between Baltimore heiress Benny Patterson and Jerome Bonaparte. Cast includes Ruggiet Rains Horton Treacher and Borzage directs.
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Marion Davies
Virginian Theater
Patterson Mansion
Baltimore
Washington
Napoleon
France
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Harry Warren
al Dubin
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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Jerome Bonaper
Thomas Jefferson
James Madison
James Monroe
John Marshall
Alexander Hamilton
Aaron Burr
Aida Johnson Young
Benny Patterson
Captai
Jerome Bonaparte
America
Emperor Napoleon
Megane
Louisiana
Charlie Ruggiet
Claude Rains
Edward Everett Horton
Arthur Treacher
Henry Stevenson
Clara Blandick
John Larkin
Walter Kingsford
Etienne Girardot
Frank Borzage
Air drama at Rialto Theatre with Maria Hutchinson lead
Air drama titled I Marry a Doctor opens today at the RusMo Rialto Theatre featuring Pat O Brien Josephine Hutchinson in the lead roles. Ken MacMurray plays a airline pilot and Miss Brondell is the Indy in distress amid gangsters court wreck and turmoil. The heartbreak of a girl seeking happiness amid slander is portrayed by Hutchinson as the wife of a small town doctor. Warner Baxter stars in Robin Hood of El Dorado at the Riffe Bereen Tuesday and Wednesday, with a tale of banditry in early history.
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Fred MachMuraesae Bennett
Marri
Zmeall Town
Pat O'Brien
Josephine Hutchinson
Ken MacMurray
Miss Brondell
Miss Hutchingon
Warner Baxter
el Dorado
U S Buildings To Be in Film
The United States government cooperates with filmmakers using sites like West Point and the Treasury and Printing Bureau in Washington. For the first time a film will use U S government buildings as sets but all currency shown is stage money, not real government money.
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West Point
Annapolis
U.S. Marine
San Diego
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T Bpreau
Washington, D. C
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Columbia
Marx Brothers Begin Rehearsals for New Film A Day at the Races
The Marx Brothers start rehearsals for their new vehicle A Day at the Races, an original story by George Kaufman and Al Boasberg, to be directed by Sam Wood. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer plans road tryouts before final script development on the Pacific coast. Janet Gaynor Clark Gable and Charlie Farrell are noted as former extras.
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George 5. Kaufman
al Boasberg
Sam Wood
Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
Pacific Coast
Janet Gaynor
Clark Gable
Charlie Farrell
Movie Lineup at City Theaters Includes Many Stars
The Virginian features Heart Divided with Marion Davies Powell. Early To Bed with Mary Boland Ruggles. Human Cargo with Claire Trevor Denlevy. Manhattan On Parade. Gentle Julia with Withers Brown Hunt. Poppy with Fields Hudson. The Rialto presents 13 Hours By Air I Married A Doctor with MacMurray Bennett. Robin Hood of El Dorado. Too Many Parents Song and Dance Man. Secret Patrol Trapped by Television with Starrett Barton and Talbot Aston. The Greenbrier screens Death From A Distance Hop Along Cassidy Laughing Irish Eyes Desert Justice plus Mary Burns Fugitive Born To Glory and Top Hat with Astaire Rogers Horton. Oregon Trail Starlit Days at Lido stars Wayne Rutherford.
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Claire Trevor
Brian Denlevy
Manhattan
Julia
Jane Withers
Tom Brown
Marshe Hunt
Poppy
W. C. Fields
Rochelle Hudson
Rialto
Fred MacMurray
Joan Bennett
Pat O'Brien
Josephine Hutchinson
Robin Hood
el Dorado
Warner Baxter
Ann Loring
Frances Farmer
Colin Tapley
Paul Kelly
Greenbrier
Cassidy
Russell Hopton
Lola Lane
William Boyd
Phil Regan
Evelyn Knapp
Jack Perrin
Mary Burns
Sylvia Sydney
Fred Astaire
Ginger Rogera
Edward Everett Horton
Lido
John Wayne
Anni Rutherford
Brian Donlevy
Hearse
Miss Trevor
Alan Dinehart
Star
Jackie Searl
Booth Tarkington
Wovert
Indiana
Marsha Hunt
Tom, Brown
Fields
Misa Hudson
Dick Powell recalls early Hollywood days and first contract
Dick Powell recounts leaving Pittsburgh for Los Angeles in 1932 with a modest contract. He recalls meeting Regis Toomey and Jean Harlow, signing papers, appearing in Blessed Event, and his anxious wait for a second role alongside Will Rogers in Too Busy to Work. He describes hotel life, portraits, and his Hollywood impressions, ending with disappointed party expectations.
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Dick Powell
Stanley Theater
Pittsburgh
Hollywood
Heaven
Los Angeles
Regis Toomey
Warta Ehough
Jean Harlow
Joe E. Brown
Testa
Lee Tracy
Mary Brian
Pittburgh
Fryer
Hollywood Athletic Club
Elter
Joan
Will Rogers
Rogers
Powell
Leatt
the Grove
San Francisco Adds Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald Leads
Clark Gable and Jeanette MacDonald pair for the first time in a musical romance set in 1905 06 Barbary Coast life. Spencer Tracy plays a priest with a strong cast including Jack Holt Jessie Ralph Ted Healy Shirley Ross and more. The film follows MacDonalds career peak as director W S Van Dyke charts a tale of gaiety song and disaster in early San Francisco.
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Clark Gable
Jeanette MacDonald
Miss MacDonald
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Gable
Spencer Tracy
Jack Holt
Jessie Ralph
Ted Healy
Shirley Ross
Margaret Irving
Harold Huber
al Shean
Willam Ricciardi
Kenneth Harlan
Barbary Coast
Golden Gate City
New Color Cartoon Screen Art Foreseen in Animation
A look at upcoming color screen art in cartoons and short subjects. Charles Mintz discusses color for animated characters like Barney Google and Ramé Google and the shift toward six reel color productions alongside sound film advances.
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Barney Google
Mintz
Rammey
Caths
Google
Hollywood Handies Guessing Game In Hollywood
A playful article describes a game in which actors pose fingers and hands to cue hidden answers. Friends guess the outcome, with examples like a V behind the nose signaling “an Indian in a V-8.” The piece notes the fad among stars and the humor of improvised silhouettes.
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Clark Gable
Joan Blondell
Dick Powell
Joan Crawford
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Luise Rainer Sees Action From High Light Catwalk
Luise Rainer sought a bird’s eye view during a routing scene in The Good Earth. In a set depicting the palace interior, 1200 Chinese rioted as cameras and lanes formed for crowds. She finally perched 90 feet above on a light catwalk with an unobstructed view while Jean Hersholt and Lon Chaney shared a dressing room nearby.
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Luise
Jean Hersholt
Lon Chaney
Scheduled At The Capitol Film Lineup At The Capitol
The Capitol presents a slate of classic and new features led by Maureen O'Sullivan and Lionel Barrymore in Devil Dell plus Garbo in Camille and Garbo with Kay Francis in The White Angel. Other titles include Bury with Harlow and Tone, Picadilly Jim with Montgomery and Evans, Things To Come, Rhythm on the Range with Crosby, Poor Little Rich Girl, One Rainy Afternoon, and Rose Marie with Eddy and MacDonald among others.
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Devil Dell
Maureen O'Sullivan
Lionel Barrymore
Bury
Jean Harlow
Franchot Tone
Jim
Robert Montgomery
Madge Evans
Norma Shearer
Leslie Howard
Georgeeusums
Joan Crawford
Robert Taylor
Camille
Greta Garbo
Virginian
Kay Francis
H. G. Well
the Kearse
Irvin S. Cobb
Bing Crosby
Jack Oakie
Joe Penner
Peter Isbeteon
Gary Cooper
Ann Harding
Rose Marie
Nelson Eddy
Jeanette MacDonald
Errol Flynn
All Workers Feel Like Stars By Hubbard Keary
Hollywood reporter Hubbard Keary describes motion picture sets 150 miles from Hollywood where actors and extras bond over heat and hard work. Pedro the stand-in plans an acting path while Indian carrier and old theater hands recall past roles and walks. Meticulous notes on laughter, romance rumors, and a 135 degree filming noon provide a vivid moment in studio life.
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J. Carroll Naish
Henry Armetta
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Nelson Eddy
Eleanor Powell
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