The Picture Show Annual (1931)

Record Details:

Title:
The Picture Show Annual
Date:
1931
Author:
Amalgamated Press, Ltd.
Publisher:
London, Amalgamated Press, Ltd.
Volume:
The Picture Show Annual (1931)
Leaf #:
000105
Language:
English
Collection:
United Kingdom, Global Cinema, and Year Book
Format:
Annuals
Contributor:
Media History Digital Library
Sponsor:
Media History Digital Library
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Description:
Date Added:
January 01, 1000
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Picture Show Annual 95 Norma Shearer and Chester Morris in The Divorcee." TWO TALKIE STARS THE two subjects of the picture above represent the two schools of talkie stars—Norma Shearer who, with years of silent acting experience continued success when she used her voice, and Chester Morris, who came to the talkies from the stage, with no silent screen experience at all. Norma, despite hints that through her marriage to Irving Thalberg she had considerably aided her own career, even to having the pick of the roles, justified the good parts given her by giving excellent performances in all her talkies, from " The Trial of Mary Dugan " to " Let us be Gay.'' Chester Morris has been in pictures only a short while. When he first burst upon the movie audiences as Chick Williams in " The Perfect Alibi," although he was new to the talkies, he was merely playing a variation of the type he had been playing for three years. In his underworld gangster roles he had made a tre- mendous hit on the stage, and he was not allowed to get away from them in his first films. Yet off-stage he is a very home-loving young man, whose two chief interests in life are his wife and daughter. His father and mother were both theatrical folk, and he himself made his first real stage appearance before his voice had broken.