Silver Screen (Feb-Oct 1935)

Page scan 00050 from Silver Screen

Record Details:

Title:
Silver Screen
Date:
Feb-Oct 1935
Publisher:
[New York, N.Y. : Screenland Magazine]
Volume:
Silver Screen (Feb-Oct 1935)
Leaf #:
00050
Language:
English
Subjects:
motion pictures, Motion pictures -- Periodicals","Celebrities -- United States -- Periodicals","Motion picture actors and actresses -- United States -- Periodicals","Television actors and actresses -- United States -- Periodicals","Entertainers -- United States -- Periodicals
Collection:
Fan Magazines and Hollywood Studio System
Format:
Periodicals
Contributor:
Library of Congress, MBRS, Moving Image Section
Sponsor:
Library of Congress, Motion Picture, Broadcasting and Recorded Sound Division
Coordinator:
Media History Digital Library
Date Added:
August 22, 2024
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it Must BE Funny WE HAVE long suspected that the ponderous intellectuals were merely dull and stupid. And now the public, panting along behind us, has come to the same clear view, and from this mountain top of common sense has signalled "We refuse to be bored." It all came about when Bill Powell and Myrna Loy made "The Thin Man." JThe gayety and charm of that piece filled the theatres in such-fashion as to leave no doubt of the message. Now the producers are applying their new wisdom. The "Casino Murder Case," a Van Dine murder story, is being rewritten to bring in the laughs. Bill Powell and Myrna Loy are being teamed again in "Wife Versus Secretary." Fortunate indeed is the player in Hollywood who can be funny. Clark Gable surprised everyone with his real flair for comedy in "It Happened One Night," and his popularity has increased enormously because of it. The wonder is that the producers have been so long in finding out about laughs. /When they read that Charlie Chaplin's income tax topped all others they might have suspected, or when they rode past the wide acres of Harold Lloyd's home one would think the idea should have struck them. We hope nothing has happened, however, to awaken those shrinking violets, the Marx Brothers. The beauty of this scene I from "David Copperfield" will be appre* ciafed more if the audi-l ence is in a happyl frame of mind. Elizabeth Allan and Basil Rathbone a-courting. j Una O'Connor got one of the big laughs of "The Barretts of Wimpole Street." when she did her roller skate walk. As Mrs. Gummidge in "David Copperfield." Bill Powell and Myrna Loy brought on the public revolt against dull pictures.