The motion picture almanac (1931)

268 The MOTION PICTURE ALMANAC 1931 MANSLAUGHTER (D-AT) 7954 PARAMOUNT. (R) August 9. 1930. (OP) July 26, 1930. With Claudette Colbert, Frederic March, Emma Dunn, Natalie Aloorehead Richard Tucker. Hilda Vaughn. G. Pat Collins. Gaylord Pendleton. Stanley Fields. Arnold Lucky, Ivan Simpson. Irving .Mitchell. THEME: The story of a girl who has too much money, a fast roadster and a selfish viewpoint. MANY A SLIP (CD-AT) UNIVERSAL. (R) March 2. 193i. '''(NP) February 28. 1931. With Joan Bennett, Lew Ayres. Slim Summerville, Virginia Sale, J. C. Nugent. Ben Alexander, Roscoe Earns, Vivian Oakland. THEME: Beautiful society miss loves too well, too soon and is frantic because the man in the case is not the marrying kind. MARCH OF TIME, THE (R) METItO-GOLDWYNMAYER. Sound on disc _ ami film. With Weber and Field. De Wolf Hopper, Louis Mann, Marie Dressier Trixie Friganza, Fay Templeton. Josephine Sabel. THEME: A revue in three sections dealing with the celebrities, dances and humor of the past, present and future. •MARIANNE (CD-AT) 6563 10124 METRO -GO LDVVYNMAYER. (R) July 20 1929. (NP) October 10, 1929. Sound on disc and film. With Marion Davies, Oscar Shaw Robert Castle. Scott Kolk, Emil Chautard Mack Swain, Oscar Apfel, Robert Ames. THEME: A French nurse in the army. •MARRIAGE PLAYGROUND, THE (CD-AT) 6610 7182 PARAMOUNT. (R) December 21. 1929 (NP) December 21, 1929. With Mary Brian Frederic March. Lilyan Tashman. Huntley Gordon, Kay Francis. William Austin Seena Owen. Little Mitzi. Billy Seay, Philippe de Lacey, Anita Louise, Rubv Paisley, Donald Smith. .Tocelyn Lee, Maude Turner Gordon David Newell. THEME: The theme deals with one of Cupid's vagaries. •MARRIED AT HOLLYWOOD (D-AT. S) ™ 10064 9747 FOX. (R) October 27. 1929. (NP) January 18. 1930. Sound on disc and film. Part color. With Harold Murray, Norma Terris, Walter Catlett, Irene Palaska, Tom Patricola. I-ennox Pawle. John Garrick. THEME: Heir to throne wishes to marrv American girl. Mother objects and puts things in his way but he finally has his wish, becoming player in picture in which she stars. •MASKED EMOTIONS (D-TME) 5389 5419 FOX. (R) May 19. 1929. Sound on film. With George O'Brien. Nora Lane. Farrell McDonald, David Sharpe, Edward Pell. Sr.. Frank Hagney. THEME: Oriental smugglers, and boy and girl in love. •MASQUERADE (CD-AT) 5674 FOX. (R) July 14, 192!). Sound on film. With Alan Birmingham. Leila Hyams, Clyde Cook, Farrell MacDonald, Arnold Lucy. George Pierce. Rita LeRoy, John Breedon. Jack Pierce. Pat Moriarity, Jack Carlisle, Frank Richardson. THEME: Crook gang finally goes to jail, and man and girl find happiness after much trouble. MATRIMONIAL BED. THE (C-AT) 6242 WARNER BROS. (R) August 2, 1930. (NP) August 30. 1930. With Lilyan Tashman. Florence Eldridge, James Gleason. Beryl Mercer. Frank Fay, Marion Byron. Vivian Oakland. Arthur Edmund Carewe, James Bradbury. THEME: The story of an amnesia victim, and the comical situations developing. MAYBE IT'S LOVE (CD-AT) 6568 WARNER BROS. (R) October 4. 1930. (OP) October 25. 1930. With Joan Bennett. Joe E. Brown. James Hall, and All-American Football Team. THEME: Girl, to save her .'ather's position as college president, flirts with eleven gridiron stars, and brings them to a jerkwater college town, with sensational results. •MEDICINE MAN. THE (CD-AT) 6211 TIFFANY. (R) June 15, 1930. (OP) June 21. 1930. With Jack Benny, Betty Bronson. Eva Novak. Billy Butts. Georgie Stone, Tom Lyons. Will Walling, E. A. Warren. THEME: Elliott Lester's stage play. The conQUest of a medicine show proprietor with small town belles. •MELODY LANE (D-AT) 6350 UNIVERSAL. (R) July 21, 1929. With Eddie Leonard. Josephine Dunn. Rose Coe, George Stone, Huntley Gordon. THEME: A vaudeville team, man and wife, separate because the wife does not want the baby daughter to grow up in vaudeville atmosphere. They are reunited again finally. •MELODY MAN (D-AT) 6386 COLUMBIA. (R) Januarv 25. 1929. (TOS) February 22. 1930. With John St. Polis, William Collier. Jr.. Alice Day. Johnny Walker. Albert Conti, Tenen Holtz. Lee Kohlmar. THEME: A story of a strict, but good father, who loves his classical music and hates jazz. But his daughter falls in love with a jazz plaver. who helps the old man and all ends well. •MELODY OF HEARTS (D-AT. S) 8061 UFA. (R) August 29. 1030. (OP) September 6. 1930. Footage of German version 8543. Sound on disc and film. With Willy Frisch. Dita Parlo. Goerv Mali. Marca Simon. Annie Mewes. Laslo Dezsoeffy, Jika Omening, Juli Llgettl. THEME: An attempt at suicide brings a renewed romance between an Hungarian soldier and his sweetheart, who had been forced to submit to improprieties by an avaricious landlady. MEN ARE LIKE THAT (CD-AT) 5467 MOBY DICK (D-AT) 7109 1 AKAMOUNT. (It) March 22. 1930. With _ WARNER BROS. (R) September 13, 1930. Hal SfceJly, Doris Hill. Charles Sellon, Clara *" (NP) August 23. 193U. With John Barrv, Blandick .Morgan Farley, Helen Chadwick. more, Joan Bennett. Lloyd Hughes. May Boley. ■ William B. Davidson. Eugene Palette, George Walter Long, Tom O'Brien, Nigel de Biulie'r ^rmSri' ™ ., . . „ . Nobel Johnson, William Walling. Virginia Sale. THEME: The sunny side of American family Jack Curtis. John Ince. life, presented humorously and humanly. THEME : It is the story of a man who, re MEN CALL IT LOVE (C D ATI Kfiiu vtngeful because of the loss of a leg in a METRO-GOLD WYV-M \YFIt TRT""M»'rih"''i'i' whaling expedition, sets to capture Moby Dick, iufi L (NP, F?bVuan r 28 1931 ' Sound on the eleat wlute w"ale "Sponsible for his loss. film and disc. With Leila Hvams, Adolphe "MODERN LOVE (CD-TME) 5730 6501 Menjou. Mary Duncan. Norman Foster. UNIVERSAL. (It) July 14. 1929. With Char THEME: Martial complications among ad ley Chase. Jean Hersholt, Kathryn Crawford, venture-seeking young couples in a sophisticated Edward Martindel. circle. THEME; Husband, wife and overalls, a hur uem r,c Tur .lnnT,. ,.. . ried trip to catch the boat on which his wife ,r,"Jf„.TH.E„ , 9,5. (Me'*T) is sailing for France, and a taxi collison. METB^-GOLDWTN-MAYER. (R) September which results in a reunion. With Barbara Leonard. ' Gilbert Ecland. A. B M OLLY AND ME (CD-PT) 8200 Korff 1__ TIFFANY. (R) March 15, 1929. Sound on -f-^ film. With Belle Bennett. Joe E. Brown, MEN OF THE SKY (D-AT) • Alberta Vaughn, Charles Byers. FIRST NATIONAL. With Irene Delroy, Jack THEME: Comedy drama of backstage folk. Whiting. Lotti Loder. Frank McHugh. John iunM«iriiR 1 f Fnx im.i &T\ irmand^'^T^B^n^t?™^^ JESHS?' M OTRO-GOLDWYN-^IAYER. Wit). Gilbert Mamlle Fred Walton and I'osra? Anf?? ' lloland' Barbara U'onard Arnold Karss' Rob" TH^ME: rMadenne° Inf^C 'into've with . ^T^ft***" DaViS' Nena Qu>rtaro' fna1he0rrrencahreSecrer|teeriicbeUt °,h" mE.ME^T^eiodrama of the North Woods. iuru nu o»i 1 . »-r> 'MONTANA MOON (0) 7917 MEN°N C,AhLT(Me,-AT>. 6050 METRO-COLD WYN-MAYER. (R) March 20, ,(.!'.), Ji.'iuaryJ2oV 1931 (N1 > Marcn 7 1930. (NP) April 19. 1930. Sound on disc 1931. With Edmund Lowe. Mae Clarke. Wil and film. With Joan Crawford. Johnny Mack liam Harrigan, Warren Hymer. Joe Brown. Brown. Dorothy Sebastian, Benny Rubin. Cliff Ruth Warren. Sharon Lynn, George Corcoran. Edwards THEME: Two lovers quarrel, but the sea and THEME: Storv of a New York girl camping the Coast Guard service bring everything around out in the West, who chooses between her in the end. Eastern and her Western suitors. MEN WITHOUT LAW (W-AT) 6090 MONTE CARLO (MC) 8077 COLUMBIA. (R) October 15. 1930. (OP) PARAMOUNT. (R) October 4, 1930. (NP) November 29. 1930. With Buck Jones Car September 6. 1930. With Jack Buchanan, melita Geraghty. Tommy Carr, Harry Woods Jcanette MacDonald. Zazu Pitts, Tyler Brooks, Fred Burns, and Fred Kelsey. Claud Allister, Edgar Norton, John Roche. mfm wi-runiiT uniicu ,™ »t> Albert Conti, Helen Garden. Donald Novis, MEN WITHOUT WOMEN (CD-AT) 7438 7246 David Percy Erik Bey TP\. IU) „Fl'b™aI?; 19S0J With Kenneth THEME: The story of a count who poses as MacKeniia . * rank Albertson Paul Page. Walter a hairdresser to win the love of a countess. McGrail Warren Hymer. Farrell MacDonald. ,„ „,„ Stuart Erwin. George La Guere. Ben Tien MOROCCO (D-AT) 8237 dricks. Jr., Charles Gerard Pat Somerset PARAMOUNT. (R) December G, 1930. (NP) THEME: Fourteen men trapped In a disabled October 25, 1930. With Gary Cooper. Marsubmarine, lene Dietrich. Adolphe Menjou. Francis Mc. Donald, Ulrich Haupt, Juliette Compton, Albert •MEXICALI ROSE (D-AT) 5126 5738 Conti, Eve Southern, Michael Visaroff, Paul COLUMBIA. (R) December 2G. 1929. Sound Porcasi. on diso and film. With Barbara Stanwyck, THEME: The romance of an officer of the Sam Hardy. William Janney. Louis Natheaux, French foreign legion. tuhaUWAranon Ha"y Ve)ar' loU" 'MOST IMMORAL LADY. A (D-AT) 7145 THEME A drama of Old Mexico FIRST NATIONAL. (R) September 22. 1929. a 01 Uld Mexlc0 With Leatrice Joy. Walter Pidgeon. Sidney •MIDNIGHT DADDIES (C-AT) 5644 Blackmer, Montague Love, Josephine Dunn. SONO ART-WORLD WIDE. (R) August Robert Edeson, Donald Reed, Florence Oak 1929. Sound on disc and dim With Harry ley. Wilson Benge. Gribbon. Andy Clyde. Alma Bennett. THEME: Story of a girl who blackmails a „„__ rich banker and then falls in love with his MIDNIGHT MYSTERY (My-AT) 6463 son. The father forbids the boy to see the RADIO PICTURES. (R) June 1. 1930. (OP) girl. Later the two meet in Paris and marry. Joyce 3LwTshe£2£ *** COmM,m' A,ice 'MOTHER'S BOY (AT-S) 7533 7423 Joyce, i^weu snerman. PATHE. (R) May 12, 1929. With Morton MIDNIGHT SPECIAL, THE (Mel-AT) 5187 Downey, Beryl Mercer, John T. Doyle. Brian CHESTERFIELD. (R) December 15, 1930 Donlevy, Helen Chandler, Osgood Perkins, (OP) December C, 1930. With Glenn Tryon Lorin Baker, Barbara Bennett, Jennie Mos Merna Kennedy. kowitz. Jacob Frank. Louis Sorin, Robert •MIDSTREAM (D-PT) 7472 Glecker, Tyrell Davis. Allan Vincent. Leslie n?mFAWHh ^L^C^L^kZ^^ THEME: A musical romance. A youth ac Mo"ntagu'Lm.e.I!Heiredn0 Jerome' Eddy ' Vrv'Kem ,?Sed °,f S,eaV> -T'"^ bm"ne.! THEME Society drama on the nVrfer .f the Protege of a wealthy society woman and •'Faust " y arama on tne °™er of Iater tne lead in a musicai revue, events which lead to his vindication. *MI™IT'mJ5™, l0'*!l.\ iV , 6097 6802 MOTHERS CRY (Mel-AT) 6750 ?i£r? A J?UNI ,iR),„nn0Te,mber 16' 192!) FIRST NATIONAL. (R) January 4. 1931. (NP) November 16 1929: January 11, 1930. (OP) December 13, 1930. Sound on disc. With George Bancroft Esther Ralston. Warner With Dorothy Peterson. David Manners, Helen Oland, Raymond Hatton. Dorothy Revier. Chandler. Sidney Blackmer, Edward Woods. Morgan Farley. O P. Heggie. Charles Sellon. Evelyn Knapp. Pat O'Mallev and Jean Barry. Siin^tx a . ' " CrPmw«" „. THEME: A mother's love for her four chil, ■ , A gunman returns from the war a dren. who are all of extremely different charHero, and remains a hero. acters— one a murderer, one an architect, one MILLIE 76O6 a home girl and ,he other girl a dreamer. RADIO PI CTU RE S . ( R )"" F ebru a ry 8 , 1931. "MOUNTAIN JUSTICE (W-AT) 5804 6797 (NP) January 17, 1931. With Helen Twelve UNIVERSAL. (R) May 30. 1930. (OP) trees. Robert Ames. Lilyan Tashman, John March 22. 1930. With Ken Mavnard. Kathrvn Halhday. James Hall. Crawford, Otis Harlan, Paul Hurst. Les Bates. Mil 1 inuaipc -rur //>n »t> THEME: Ranch owner's son. aided by heroine. WATtiwn rt?o« 1 ton nSSi avenges his father's death. Cowboy songs and mAJS, ^ JSi AIay 1'»1?t31, ^(N,P) humor Prominent in picture. ^ March 14. 1931. With George Arliss. Evalvn . . Knapp. Bramwell Fletcher, J. Farrell Mac "MOUNTED STRANGER (W-AT). 5554 5905 5984 Donald. J. C. Nugent. David Manners. Flor UNIVERSAL. (R) February 10 1930. With ence Arliss, Noah Beery, Ivan Simpson. James Hoot Gibson. Louise Lorraine, Francis Ford. Cagney, Sam Hardy, Charles Crapewin. Charles Malcolm White. James Correy. E. Evans. Tully Marshall. Ethel Griffles. Ben THEME: Heroine is wounded in saving her Hall lover from rival gang, but she finally recovers. THEME: The experiences that befall a and villain is slain. wealthy business man who is ordered by his MOVIETONE FOLLIES OF 1930 (R) 7522 nets in=t%i"h?, 5 ,0 "''if fr°m bUSU (R) May 4. 1930. (NP) June 28. 1930. ness and instead buys a small garage and Sound on film. With El Brenrtel. Marjorie poses as a poor man. White. William Collier. Jr.. Noel Francis. MIN AND BILL (CD-AT) 5977 Frank Richardson, Miriam Seegar. METOO-GOLDWYN-MAYER. (R) November THEME: Fascinating, fervent youth at play. 29. 1930 (NP) October 18 1930 With Ma plentiful interludes of bright comedy and rie Dressier. Wallace Beery. Dorothv Jordon romance. Fun and fast-stepping action against Marjorie Rambeau. William Bakewell. ^Tb,1iiJiBr0^nd of a Broadway show THEME: A dissolute, waterfront character THEME: Two-man acrobat team has differ befriends and adopts a little child en,ce. ov?r same Blr1' but happiness comes to all in the end. MISBEHAVING LADIES (CD-AT) 6480 "MURDER ON THE ROOF (D-AT) 5400 f^T, NATI0NAL (R) April 11. 1931. COLUMBIA. (R) January 19? 1930. (NP) (NP) August 23. 1930. With Lila Lee, Ben February 8. 1930. With Dorothy Revier, David I;K2!;rJjU<'1,pn .I'it'leflel". Eml'y Fltzroy. Newell. Raymond Hatton, Edward Dohertv. THEME: It is the storv of a fantastic king THEME: A storv of a lawyer, who is framed dom. w;hich is a reminder of the George Barr hv a crook, but whose daughter saves him bv McCutcheon themes. a clever plot. •MISSISSIPPI GAMBLER (D-AT) MURDER WILL OUT (My-AT) 6200 6825 5506 5384 FIRST NATIONAL (R) April 6. 1930. (OP) UNIVERSAL. (R) November 5. 1929. (NP) Ar>riI 19. 1!)30. Sound on disc. With JackNovember 1G. 1929. With Joseph Schildkrant Mullmll. Lila Lee. Noah Beery, Malcolm Joan Bennoit. Carmelite Gerachtv. Alec B MacGregor, Alec B. Francis. Francis. Otis H>rlan. Billy Welch, Charles 'MY LADY'S PAST (D-PT) 8077 ?£^^,Cie1m6e IHnwar'' PATHE. (R) June 1. 1929. Sound on film. THEME: River boats and a gambler who finds . With Belle Bennett. Joe E. Brown. Alma the girl of his dreams. Bennett. Russell Simpson.