The New Movie Magazine (Jan-Sep 1935)

On the Set with Coming Pictures We snuck up on 'em the other day, and their conversation went something like this: "Love me?" Fred says. "No," Claudette says. "O.K.," Fred shrugs nonchalantly. "I just wondered, that's all." Silence. Then, "What do you think of love, anyhow?" "WTell," Claudette smiles dreamily, "I know one thing: when I do meet up with it, I'll know it right away!" "Yes." Fred regards the toe of his shoe gloomily. "I suppose so. . . ." So our lovely heroine meets Ray Milland and goes head-over-heels, without knowing he's an English lord. It's a neat romance until the royal family gets wind of it, and then Ray is ordered home, pronto. He goes, too, jelly-fish that he is, leaving Colbert to her "pot-hooks" and park bench as of yore. Turning press-agent, Ray puts his secret love on the front pages by publicizing her as the "Gal Who Said No to a Blueblood," and before you can say "wienerschnitzel" Claudette is famous and pulling down big money in a popular night spot. Nursing a publicity complex himself, the Britisher comes back to share the spotlight with the fair maiden, but all of a sudden our Nell goes cold on him and returns to the park bench to find the "real thing" she's overlooked. Neat direction by Wesley Ruggles. DAVID COPPERFIELD • M-G-M If you have not read this famous Charles Dickens classic, you should have, and shame on you! It's all about a sensitive lad who overcomes the bitterness and unhappiness of his early life; his mother's unfortunate second marriage; the death of his first wife; and his ultimate marriage to his first sweetheart. When his mother's second husband turns out to be a brute of the first water, young David runs away to live with his crusty old aunt, played by Edna May Oliver. Going to school, he meets Madge Evans, daughter of Lewis Stone, and a deep affection springs up between the two. The passing years find David grown to manhood (played by Frank Lawton) and visiting an old school friend, Hugh Williams, in London. Forgetting Madge, David meets and falls desperately in love with Maureen 0 'Sullivan. They are married and return to the Stone homestead, where David discovers that the pesky Uriah Heep (Roland Young), in encouraging Stone's bibulous habits, has robbed him of nearly everything he owns. A delicate young thing, Maureen soon dies, leaving David desolate, until, some time later, when his early affection for Madge ripens into love, and, after exposing Heep, the two are married. "All right, Frank," Director George Cukor instructed, "you're packing . . . excited over the prospect of going to London. Miss Evans . . . you stand here . . . watch him . . . make it wistful. You love him . . . and he's going away. Young," to our Roland, "you're perfectly satisfied that the fellow's going. Be smug about it . . . and make that speech significant. All right; let's go!" So . . . the cameras turn. Frank packs excitedly. Madge watches him wistfully. Roland is nastily smug. "It would be too bad," he speaks significantly, "if, in London, our friend would forget all about us?" "Save it!" says Cukor. And they're ready for the next scene. I'VE BEEN AROUND Chester Morris is engaged to Rochelle Hudson, daughter of UNIVERSAL a w e a 1 1 h y L on g Islander, and they plan to be married. But, while Chet is away on a business trip, Rochelle meets up with G. P. Huntley, Jr., and, because of the feller's slick city ways, becomes madly infatuated with him. G. P. is in love with Phyllis Brooks, but, because he figures on cutting in on the old man's money, leads poor Rochelle on until Poppa tells him that if he marries her, he'll have to support himself. When he throws her over, Rochelle elopes with the delighted and unsuspecting Chester. But on their wedding night she breaks down and tells him that it's "no sale" because her heart belongs to Mister Huntley. Smarting under the injustice of woman's inhumanity to man, Chet goes on a glorious toot, painting Europe and points East a swell shade of red. With time to think things over, Rochelle sees the light and New Year's Eve finds her a lonely and regretful lady. In the lobby of his hotel, Chester runs across his old pal Gene Lockhart. "How come you're sober?" Gene wants to know. "That's the way I'm going to be from now on," Chet says gloomily. "Honest?" "Yeah. You won't have to play nursemaid any longer." "I'm gonna stay with you tonight, though," anxiously. "You won't need to." Chet hesitates a moment. Then: "You don't happen to know where Drue (Rochelle) is living, do you?" With a significantly happy look. Gene digs in a pocket and produces the address. Thanking him, Chet dashes out. In the elevator of her apartment house, Rochelle has run across Huntley and a gang who insist on coming up to her place for a drink. And — just then Chester walks in! 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