Rain is New Play Adapted From Somerset Maugham
The Rialto presents Rain a Joan Crawford starring vehicle adapted from W Somer set Maugham. Director Lewis Milestone cards a famed cast including Walter Huston Ben Hendricks Beulah Bondi and Matt Moore filmed on Catalina Island to recreate Pago Pago. The plot follows a shipwrecked group during a cholera quarantine with a reformer clashing with a morally flexible heroine.
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Joan Crawford
Rialto Theatre
Lewis Milestone
Ace
Joseph M. Schenck
Art Cinema Corporation
Maxwell Anderson
John Colton
C. Randolph
W. Somerset Maugham
United Artists
Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer
Walter Huston
William Gargan
Matt Moore
Guy Kibbee
Walter Catlett
Beulah Bondi
Kendall Lee
Ben Hendricks
Frederick Howard
Catalina Island
Pago Pago
South Seas
Hollywood
Designer To Study European Fashions
Paramount stylist Travis Banton plans a two month tour of European capitals to study fashion tendencies for coming seasons. The aim is to foresee trends so styles created for pictures align with vogue when films are released months later.
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Travis Banton
Paramount
Director Credits Wife Help In Film Decisions
Director William A. Seiter relies on wife Laura La Plante for the woman’s angle on Hot Saturday with Nancy Carroll Cary Grant and Randolph Scott. Mae West notes Hollywood ideal for writing while in Paramount. A staged wresting scene in The Sign of the Crogs features thirty pairs against thirty Amazon men.
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William A. Seiter
Nancy Carroll
Cary Grant
Randolph Scott
Paramount
Laura la Plante
Mae West
Hollywood
Cecil B. de Mille
Helen Hayes in Paramount's A Farewell to Arms
Stage star Helen Hayes is performing in Paramount Pictures production of A Farewell to Arms. The article notes her involvement and her role within the film project.
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Helen Hayes
Paramount
Air Mail Thrills at Rialto with Authentic Air Port Scenes
Universal's Air Mail screens at the Rialto with interior shots of a government relay airport. The film recreates air routes and radio stations, showing crash equipment and rescue gear. Stars include Ralph Bellamy Pat O'Brien Russell Hopton Slim Summerville Gloria Stuart and Lilian Bond.
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Rialto Theatre
Universal
Ralph Bellamy
Pat O’brien
Russell Hopton
Slim Summerville
Gloria Stuart
Lilian Bond
John Ford
Actor to sail for London stage work
Having completed work in Paramounts Evenings For Sale Bert Marshall and his wife Edna Best are en route to New York to sail this week for London stage appearances in Another Language. Marshall also appeared in Trouble in Paradise with Miriam Hopkins and Kay Francis.
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Paramount
Herbert Marshall
Edna Best
New York
London
Hollywood
Marlene Dietrich
Marshall
Ernst Lubitsch
Miriam Hopkins
Kay Francis
Paramount buys antique cars for film crashes in If I Had a Million
Paramount bought twelve sturdy motor relics to be wrecked in crashes for the all star picture If I Had a Million. The old cars will be used to create authentic road mayhem scenes.
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Paramount
Actor Herbert Marshall on moving pace fuels screen success
Herbert Marshall credits constant travel and never staying in one place with keeping his film career fresh. He points to his work in Paramount's Blonde Venus and Trouble in Paradise as examples of adapting without wearing out his welcome.
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Herbert Marshall
Paramount
Paradise
Sunday Vaudeville at Rialto Promises Top Circuit Acts
The Rialto Theatre will host a Sunday double bill with three top vaudeville acts from the circuit. Bookings are held back to secure Chicago loop talent for Joliet audiences. A screen feature titled The Crusader heads the program with H B Warner playing Phillip Brandon the district attorney.
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Rialto Theatre
Mort Berman
Joliet
Chicago Loop
H. B. Warner
Phillip Brandon
Life Begins Opens at Rialto Theatre Next Week
First National’s secret production Life Begins arrives at the Rialto next Thursday December 1. The film unfolds entirely in a hospital maternity ward with eight expectant mothers and a large cast led by Loretta Young Eric Linden and Aline MacMahon. Directors James Flood and Elliott Nugent head a notable ensemble including Preston Foster Glenda Farrell and Frank McHugh.
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First National
Rialto
Loretta Young
Eric Linden
Aline MacMahon
Preston Foster
Glenda Farrell
Frank McHugh
Gloria Shea
Walter Walker
Clara Blandick
Dorothy Peterson
Vivienne Osborne
Elizabeth Patterson
Gilbert Roland
Hale Hamilton
James Flood
Elliott Nugent
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Spectator Guide To Entertainment
Evelyn Brent
Life
Lee Tracey
That
Richard Cromwell
Dorothy Jordan
Marion Marsh
Norman Foster
World PW
Publix Theatres
AIR Mail
OUR Gang
A Publix Theatre
Ralid SP
Hugo
Lew Cody
Ned Sparks
the Crusader
Publix
Jack Holt
Evelyn Knapp
Hardie Albright
Donald Nevis
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