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BEHIND THE SCENES OF
By WALTER RAMSEY
HOLLYWOOD is all excited! Three of the biggest pictures of the year are in production at the same time. Over at M-G-M, where they are rather used to huge productions, the entire studio is alive with talk about: "... imagine the three Barrymores in the same picture !" At RKO even the girls who wait table in the studio cafe are anxiously watching the outcome of the murder mystery, "The Phantom of Crestwood." All the while, however, Paramount is beating the studio world to the draw by making the first all-star radio picture, "The Big Broadcast."
The fact that the entire "Royal Family" is to appear in the same play for the first time is exciting. "Rasputin" will mark the Barrymores initial opportunity to be together in the same production. Ethel was heard to say : "This is the one thing I have waited for all these years . . . never before have we had the chance . . . this is to be an historical document for the stage as well as the screen . . ."
And has the M-G-M studio ever planned for a picture with such infinite and costly care? We think not. They have used the actual "Gold Book" of Russia in designing the sets and creating the uniforms and gowns to be worn. The throne room and the Cathedral have been reproduced in exact replica . . . even to the mammoth murals on the walls. The gowns worn by Ethel Barrymore (as the Czarina) together with those of her court ladies required more than two thousand yards of gold cloth ! A famous jeweler reproduced the crown jewels.
But the most interesting part of the whole inside story of "Rasputin" is the fact that Ethel and John are not
"The Phantom of Crestwood" at RKO is getting a load of attention because it's the only mystery story which has ever been filmed without the cast knowing the ending. It's on account of the RKO contest. The cast (above) includes Robert McWade, Anita Louise, Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Skeet Gallagher, Mary Duncan, H. B. Warner, Aileen Pringle, Pauline Frederick, and Matty Kemp.
Big things are doing in Hollywood at the moment
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