Tuesday, September 23, 2008

January 1, 1932

The studios promise to be busy in 1932. Warner Brothers have 32 features scheduled including George Arliss in "The Man Who Played God", "The Mouthpiece" with Warren William; and Edward G. Robinson in "Two Seconds", the New York hit of this season... Radio has 21 pictures in process of filming including "The Bird of Paradise" with Dolores Del Rio; "Westward Passage" with Ann Harding; and "The March of a Nation" with Richard Dix.

HOME TO ESTELLE TAYLOR
Jack Dempsy Divorce Settlement Also Gives Her $30,000
Los Angeles, Dec 31
Details of the property settlement between Estelle Taylor, film actress, and her former husband, Jack Dempsey, former heavyweight boxing champion, were revealed today in a document filed with the county recorder.
It disclosed Dempsey gave Miss Taylor the Los Angeles residence, $30,000, and $10,000 as a fee for her attorney.


Greta Garbo is to do the dancer in MGM's Production of "Grand Hotel"

If only to be different from Theodore Dreiser, Sinclair Lewis has formally expressed himself as delighted at United Artists' production of "Arrowsmith," Sidney Howard made the adaptation and the stars are Ronald Colman and Helen Hayes.

Franchot Tone
who made a hit with the Junior Guild in "The House of Connelly" has been signed by Paramount for "The Wiser Sex" in which Claudette Colbert and Lilyan Tashman match wits.

Norma Shearer will turn from the levity of "Private Lives" to the somber reality of O'Neill's "Strange Interlude." She was to have made "Smilin' Through" but a schedule change was made.

A survey of the field of shorts discloses that the miniature and serial travelogues have outstripped all of the others in popularity, even the many football series and cartoons.

After years on end as a dramatic stock actress, Vance Calvert has successfully passed a screen test and is in line for a Hollywood movie job.

The eighteenth birthday of Paramount is being celebrated in Hollywood this week. On December 30, 1913 the company, then the Jesse L. Lasky Feature Play corporation, began work on "The Squaw Man" with Cecil B. DeMille directing. The studio was an old barn at Vine and Selma streets.

'SOOKY' STIRS EMOTIONS AT GRAND-LAKE
Jackie Cooper Keeps Tears Flowing Freely, but Story Also Brings Its Chuckles

Movie taglines:

NOW! JOY FOR THE ENTIRE FAMILY
HUCKLEBERRY FINN

Jackie Coogan - Mitzi Green - Extra Features

A GALA NEW YEAR'S PROGRAM ON STAGE AND SCREEN
CLIVE BROOK
"HUSBAND'S HOLIDAY"

with
Charles Ruggles
Vivienne Osborne
Juliette Compton
Harry Bannister

Clive Brook:


Your New Year's Day Will Be Happier After Seeing This Truly Beautiful Romance
JANET GAYNOR
and
CHARLES FARRELL
in
DELICIOUS
with
EL BRENDEL

A Fox Picture with George Gershwin's Beautiful Music

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