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1930
By I .cot! aril Hall
"Moby Dick" was excellent, and in "The Man From Blankley's" be had the audacity and the great good sense to turn otT the romantic stop and give us the first — and still the best — fane of the talkie era, farce being the medium in which he
excels.
UNLIKE the situation existing in the ladies' league, several gentlemen press Barrymore for honors. No less than six mummers turn up with three bests. They are Edmund Lowe, Gary Cooper, William Powell, Ramon Novarro, Warner Baxter and Jack Oakie. All these boys performed excellently. Oakie seems to have quite stolen Hill Haines' thunder. Cooper came through excellently in Westerns, and Eddie Lowe in the crook sort of thing. Powell was splendid all year. Novarro added a waggish comedy talent to his pleasant voice and his proverbial I looks and knocked off three medals for his three li«ht romances with music. Baxter, one of the great hits of talkie times, scored heavily in his Western romantic pieces.
In addition, fifteen gentlemen were credited with two hits apiece. They were George Arliss. Richard Arlen. Lew Avres, Charles Bickford, Ronald Colman. Maurice Chevalier, John Gilbert, O. I'. Eieggie, Buster Keaton, Robert Montgomery, Chester Morris, Fredric March, Lowell Sherman, Lewis Stone and the late Milton Sills.
Of the veterans in pictures no better year's work was done than by Lewis Stone. His two best performances, in "Romance" and "The Office Wife." were [ pi EASE TT kn 10 PAGE 104 ]
John Barrymore as he looked in "General Crack," his first talking picture, and a success
APPROXIMATE BATTING AVERAGES of the thirty-five men and women who had two or more hest performances in PhotoPI W
honor roll for 1930. The standings are arrived at hv dividing the number o( picturein which they appeared by the number of their best performances.
ACTORS
John Barrymore Warner Baxter William Powell Ramon Novarro
100' 100 100 100
George Arliss 100
Ronald Colman 100
John Gilbert 100
Buster Keaton Milton Sills . Lew Ayres Maurice Chevalier Lowell Sherman . Edmund Lowe . Gary Cooper Jack. Oakie Richard Aden Charles Bickford O. P. Heggie
100 100 66 66 66 60 60
50 50 50 50
Robert Montgomery Chester Morris Fredric March Lewis Stone .
At ! RESS1 S Ruth Chatterton Greta (iarbo Dorothy Jordan
Marilyn Miller
Helen Twelvetrees .
Marion Davies
Constance Bennett .
Joan Crawford
Norma Shearer
Mary Brian ....
Marie Dressier
Jeanette MacDonald .
Bervl Mercer ....
50
100 100 100 100 100 100
66 66 66 50 50
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