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 #:
000272
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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258 THE TALKING PICTURE More than a dozen screen writers and more than half a dozen directors, including Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Taurog, Norman McLeod, and James Cruze, worked at concocting If I Had a Million. Paramount produced it in 1932, with an all-star cast that included Gary Cooper, George Raft, Charles Laughton, Mary Boland, Jack Oakie, and W. C. Fields. It was something of a hodge-podge, and ushered in no new era in picture-making, but it was undeniably entertaining. In the scene above, Mr. Fields, abetted by Alison Skipworth, is realizing his lifetime dream of wrecking cars driven by road hogs. BELOW In bringing Noel Coward's Design for Living to the screen, Ernst Lubitsch contrived the difficult feat of steering the tale— that of a lady who loves two gentlemen simultaneously— past the censors and still preserving much of its original ribald humor. Here are the three principals, as interpreted by Gary Cooper, Miriam Hopkins, and Fredric March.