Horse Operas and the Movie Trade Winds
Lloyd Consiettis 1938 column surveys booming horse operas in minor studios, big auto company promos, and the elaborate main title credits raising production costs. It notes Burns and Allen French simuls, Tomlin starting a film company, studio access restrictions, Muni loan to MGM for The Good Earth, and Barbara Bennett’s screen return in England.
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Picture on parolees sparks anti crime drama plan
A 1936 motion picture project in Los Angeles aims to expose parolee crime and the flaws of the system. Sam Briskin plans a propaganda drama featuring a killer like John Florenza and real life gangsters to illustrate dangers of parole, with fellow figures such as Alvin Barpis and John Dillinger in the anti pardons angle. The report also notes Stokowski joining Metro Goldwyn Mayer to conduct Carmen on film and industry gossip about Ruth Donnelly, Billie Burke, and others involved in upcoming projects.
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Broadway Melody of 1939 announced with Eleanor Powell
Hollywood executives of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announced a new installment in the Broadway Melody movietron series. The film titled Broadway Melody of 1939 will again star Eleanor Powell, continuing the popular musical franchise.
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Actress Shot in Lovers Quarrel on Broadway
Doris Dudley, a young actress in the Broadway production Dead End, was wounded in the chest by a rifle shot during a quarrel with playwright Sid Kingsley in his West Side apartment. Police labeled it self inflicted. a farewell note was found but contents withheld. Dudley’s father disputed intent, saying doctors found no suicide signs. Dudley and Kingsley reportedly reconciled at York Hospital and she planned to resume her role in End of Summer in a few days. Kingsley claimed he fired a gun to test it after a quarrel about a date.
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Chaplin Matinee for Children at Aztec Theater
A free ice cream bar will be served to every child at a Saturday morning matinee featuring Charlie Chaplin in Modern Times at the Aztec theater. The program includes a new Merry Melody color cartoon Let It Be Me about Bingo the rooster radio crooner.
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Scirumann-Heink IIIs Film Delayed By Illness In Hollywood
Hollywood studio officials said today that the motion picture Gram, featuring Holley Scirumann-Heink III and May Robson, will be made later this year due to Mme Scirumann-Heink's illness after an influenza attack. Billie Burke Signs with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Gala Hollywood contract.
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Girl Found Wounded After Annulment of Troubled Marriage
Miss Dudley, once wed at fourteen to Theodore Kurrus of Mt. Kisco New York, had their marriage annulled last January. They share a son now two years old, and the incident follows the couple’s fraught history.
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Preston Foster Moves to Océan on Power Cruiser
Hollywood actor Preston Foster closed his home and moved his family two servants and all baggage aboard his 58 foot vessel. He said he would live on the boat until September 1 and maybe longer if it works out. The voyage is planned from Hollywood to an ocean setting.
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Chaplin Film at Aztec Friday Presents Modern Times
Charlie Chaplin stars in a long awaited soundless comedy in Modern Times at the Aztec theater starting Friday. The production marks Chaplin’s first script driven work in years and features his familiar bowler hat and mustache as a factory worker navigating an industrial city with job misadventures culminating in varied roles such as shipyard worker and singing waiter.
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