A pictorial history of the movies (1943)

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 #:
000247
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:
March 28, 2024
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A FREE SOUL ( 1931 ) 233 M-G-M remade Eugene Walter's old play, The Easiest Way, with Constance Bennett playing the role that Frances Starr had created in the theater. Anita Page played the honest, hard-working sister ( who wasn't in the original play ) , with Clark Gable, a promising leading man, as her truck-driver husband (who wasn't in the original plav). Here he is ordering Constance Bennett out into the night with her baby who wasn't in the original plav). Norma Shearer had already embarked on a series of sophisticated roles. One of her 1931 pictures was A Free Soul, from the novel by Adela Rogers St. Johns, in which the daughter of a brilliant criminal lawyer falls in love with the gangster whom her father has saved from the chair. Lionel Barrymore played the father, and Clark Gable, shown here with Miss Shearer, acted the gangster in a manner that established him as a definite box-office draw.