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Phillips Holmes , his sister, Made1 i n e, and his brother, Ralph. The handsome leading man is just "Phil" to them. ''An American Tragedy" is his next, from Theodore Dreiser' s sensational novel.
Just before the shooting! Director John Cromwell illustrates a bit of action for Ruth Chatterton while the slate boy registers the scene number. Mr. Cromwell is one of our ace directors.
He died of injuries received in an automobile accident when the car he was driving left the road to avoid a truck.
Robert Edeson died of a heart attack. His wife and daughter and his old friend Edmund Breese were at his bedside when the end came.
have to, since she gets any amount of good publicity anyway, and besides, the studio boys adore boosting her. It must be that she loves them for themselves alone!
When Marie Dressier isn't working on her own lot, she visits on other sets and gives the actors a cheerio. Two of her pets are Johnny Mack Brown and Neil Hamilton — and she always wants to mother them. Any new venturers in screen work from the stage find her most helpful; she minimizes the terrors of the microphone for them and jollies them up in their blackest hours.
Little Mary Brian was a joyous time the
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night they held a strictly professional pre-view of "The Front Page" at United Artists' studio — newspaper and magazine writers flocked around to congratulate her. Lewis Milestone got his share of the kudos, too, and was host at a supper party afterwards. Lewis had a hard job trying to seem modest and give all the credit for the picture to Ben Llecht and Charles McArthur, the authors. None of your "Once in a Lifetime" stuff for those authors — Hollywood is theirs.
Marie Dressier entertained lavishly for half a dozen studio press agents recently. And she didn't
We've had horse pictures, dog pictures, monkey pictures (a la "Rango") and now Educational is screening "A Fowl Affair." This portrays the romance between a Plymouth Rock rooster and a white Leghorn hen. A white Mallard duck is the villain of the play. A red rooster is the sheriff, and ducks fill such roles as a smuggler, a vegetable peddler, a maid, and several cops.
Picture without words? Six-year-old Jackie Cooper, who plays the title role of Percy Crosby's "Skippy," outside Clara's dressing-room. You can write your own caption.
Universal City celebrated its sixteenth anniversary as a picture studio. When Carl Laemmle founded it Henry Ford and Thomas Edison helped with the dedicating ceremonies in 1915. Universal was the very first studio in California, and at one time there were fortytwo companies working on the lot. It has turned out over a thousand full-length pictures and shorts galore. The studio grounds cover over 300 acres.
Did you know that Monroe Owsley was once an opera critic in Philadelphia?
That Ricardo Cortez was once general manager of a new York Shipping Company ?
That Lew Cody was once a drug store clerk?
That Lawrence Grant was adopted by the Blackfeet Indians as a tribesman when he visited thencountry to get pictures for a lecture?
That one of the best cam