A pictorial history of the movies (1943)

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Record Details:

Title:
A pictorial history of the movies
Date:
1943
Publisher:
New York : Simon and Schuster
Volume:
A pictorial history of the movies
Leaf #:
000240
Language:
English
Collection:
Books
Format:
Books
Contributor:
Niles Essanay Silent Film Museum
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
June 20, 2024
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226 THE TALKING PICTURE Two other promising youngsters attracted considerable attention in 1930. They were Fredric March and Claudette Colbert, both of whom had been in pictures for about a year. Paramount remade Manslaughter, a former Thomas Meighan silent, and featured them in it. ABOVE RIGHT Nancy Carroll starred in Paramount's Stolen Heaven, with Phillips Holmes, the son of the stage favorite, Taylor Holmes, as her leading man. BELOW Warner Brothers, with Little Caesar, started that cycle of gangster pictures that made "taken for a ride," "on the spot," and a dozen other underworld phrases such household words during die early thirties. It was this picture, too, that started Edward G. Robinson on his long career of tough-guy impersonations. Little Caesar was directed by Mervyn Le Roy from an adaptation of W. R. Burnett's novel. In this scene are Robinson and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.