The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

' ■r % 3'"™V ^ BE '*■ * ■yi , ^ 0^3^11 Jr^L <« B ar ^ "* jfH sRjvJ^B i»V ^'^BR^^^^^^jfiidrwLci*% ijfFraMmi % t'LiSisBH < i^Sai B^'.^P5' K» J^ ' *•-' «§iyi^^yi mUtfk £&i'£$&J&f-\2 ■HS ,JJ£m:,;M DAVID COPPERFIELD (M-G-M) A careful, beautifully done version of the Dickens novel. See page 18, and if you can still resist going to see it, something's certainly wrong. FORSAKING ALL OTHZRS (M-G-M) Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Robert Montgomery, Billie Burke, Charles Butterworth, Ted Healy. Sophisticated comedy, bound to please you. FATHER BROWN, DETECTIVE (Paramount) Paul Lukas, international crook, steals diamonds for Gertrude Michael but is cleverly outwitted by Walter Connolly, as Father Brown, a Catholic priest. MILLS OF THE GODS (Columbia) May Robson is grandmother to a prosperous plow company and a batch of youngsters who bleed her for her money. With Victor Jory and Fay Wray. ENCHANTED APRIL (RKO) Ann Harding and Frank Morgan, married, have a falling out, but April in Italy brings romance back again. Romance and some comedy, too. ON THE SET with the COMING PICTURES Picking that picture for to-night is always a bit of a problem. Let BARBARA BARRY, our studio scout, help you with it MAYBE we're wrong, but the story of the dashing young prince who falls in love with a charming commoner and is obliged sadly to relinquish a great love in favor of duty to his country, sounds very, oh, very familiar. From the sidelines, we watched Ramon Novarro dish out his own particular brand of Amorous Advance to the properly reluctant, though charming, commoner, Miss Evelyn Laye. It seems that, to cover up his romance with a gold-digging Countess, Ramon has hired Evelyn, a ballet dancer, to pose as his real amour. And, to keep her job in the Royal Opera House, Miss Laye agrees to accept the job of inamorata in name only. Out of camera range, Vicki Baum, the author, watched the scene with critical intensity. No one was going to take her brain child and part its hair the wrong way! However, at the finish of the shot, her face relaxed and, with a swift smile for Director Dudley Murphy, she signified her complete approval. Back in a dark corner, swathed from chin to heels in a swanky military cape, Edward Everett Horton dozed comically in his canvas chair. Lower and lower his head would droop and just about the time it looked as though the poor man must pitch over on the floor, he'd snap into an erect position and start all over! The sets are really gorgeous. And, the cast . . . well, just give a look! Novarro, Laye, Horton, Charles Butterworth, Una Merkel, Donald Cook, Cecilia Parker, Albert Conti, Henry Stephenson, and a lot more! Oscar Hammerstein II and Sigmund Romberg gave their all on lyrics and music. And, with Ramon crooning the strictly Viennese ditties, we'll be big enough to overlook the triteness of the plot. THE NIGHT IS YOUNG • M-G-M GOLD DIGGERS OE 1935 • WARNERS THERE'S music in the air this month! Which'll it be, folks . . . Hammerstein? ... or Warren and Dubin, who go to town on some right snappy numbers for the new "Gold Diggers" opus? We really needn't tell you that Dick Powell has the star spot as yodeller supreme, because, after all, who but our Dick could turn en the harmony "as you like it"? Dick is a young medical student, clerking in a fashionable hotel during vacations. He falls in love with Gloria Stuart, whose mother, a snooty widow, wants to impress the social world with her affluence by putting on a benefit show for the milk fund. Which brings us to what we've been waiting for all the time, with a hey, nonny-nonny and a One . . . Two . . . Three . . . Kick! The chorus numbers are, if anything, more elaborately beautiful than ever before. And Busby Berkeley, who has heretofore directed nothing but the dance numbers, is having a fling at putting the entire company through its paces. The day we stuck our nose on the set, Dick and Gloria were strolling the entire length of a colossal hotel lobby singing "I'll Go Shopping with You." Starting at the far end, they walked slowly, looking fondly into each other's eyes and saying it with music, followed every step of the way by the rubbertired camera and most of the crew. Gloria's snobbish mother objects to her daughter's romance with what she considers a "nobody." But, after she gets the {Please turn to page 63) The New Movie Magazine, February, 1935