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 #:
000280
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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266 THE TALKING PICTURE Paramount brought Alice in Wonderland to the screen in 1933, with an all-star cast that included Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Jack Oakie, Richard Arlen, Alison Skipworth, Edna May Oliver, and, as Alice, Charlotte Henry. Norman McLeod directed. Despite all this array of talent, the picture was disappointing. Everybody was masked ( the Plum Pudding, shown above, is a good example), so that the actors had only their voices to rely on, and the whole production was heavily literal and left nothing to the imagination. ABOVE RIGHT Eugene O'Neill's fine play, The Emperor Jones, has also been produced in an operatic version composed by Louis Gruenberg and as a picture. The film was directed by Dudley Murphy and released by United Artists in 1933. It starred Paul Robeson. BELOW Mae West's first picture, Night After Night, had made her a star. Her second, based on her own play, Diamond Lil, and rechristened by Paramount She Done Him Wrong, was far more successful. Lowell Sherman directed it, and Gilbert Roland, here being compromised, played one of the leads. It was in this picture that Miss West delivered that immortal line: "Come up and see me sometime."