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Paramount Plans Seventy Feature Films For 1931
Paramount announces a massive 1931 slate with 70 all talkie features including color productions using the new Process. Skippy and a child star talkie are in development. Writers like Robert Presnell are urged to craft dramatic scripts with strong dialogue. Color scenes, lavish costumes, and technology with better sound recording are highlighted as key future directions.
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Jesse L. Lasky
Paramount
Rusalia
L In
Jose L. Lasky
Percy Crosby
Skippy
P. Crosby
Robert Presnell
New York
Presnell
Big Pond
Long Island
Claudette Colbert
Andre Cordray
Nat Pendleton
George Barbier
Eiders Manter
Meet Talkies
Albert de Sart
Nancy Carroll
Mr de Sart
Hollywood Studios
Edmund Goulding
James Kirkwood
Hobart Bosworth
Phillips Holmes
Morgan Fairey
Ned Sparks
Sa Aays Smyid Bennett
Charles Rogers
Paramount Studies
Bennett
Rogers
Katherine Crawford
Carole Lombard
Geneva Mitchell
Virginia Bruce
Josephine Dunn
Victor Schertzinger
Richard Tucker
Lawrence Grant
Francis McDonald
George Marion
Jeanette MacDonald
Jack Oskie
Skeets William Austin
Besnidieee
Beeda
Maurice Chevalier
Hollywood