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By Colin Shindler

ISBN-10: 0203991052

ISBN-13: 9780203991053

ISBN-10: 0415103134

ISBN-13: 9780415103138

A close research of the workings of the yank movie in the course of the Nineteen Thirties. Schindler illustrates how the studios helped to foster principles of social harmony and patriotism.

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Even Joan Blondell’s love is not suffiecient to compensate for Cagney’s inevitable prison sentence. 20 HOLLYWOOD IN CRISIS Quick Millions is full of references to the imperfections of law and justice. ’ When MGM, that model studio of moral rectitude, also released two pictures about gangsters and criminals in 1930 and 1931 (The Big House and The Secret Six) it was apparent that the gangster film fashion had been awarded a medal of some distinction. After Little Caesar Mervyn LeRoy continued his successful partnership with Edward G.

All the boys in this strange country are named ‘George’ and all the girls ‘Angela’. Fields who announces his arrival in any room by performing on a one-man band. He keeps his position of authority over a sullen and mutinous cabinet by beating each member at arm wrestling, but, just to make sure, he conducts all cabinet business clutching a revolver. The plot, such as it is, concerns the $8 million needed to save the country from bankruptcy. The money is eventually awarded by a sponsor after he sees Fields fling a thousand-pound weight at Jack Oakie for having stepped on his foot.

Fox Theaters admitted two people on each ticket and Warner Brothers slashed admission prices from forty cents to a dime. It was enough to delay the dramatic decline for a few months. ’29 TROUBLE IN PARADISE 27 Of all the studios Paramount was the worst affected. It had voraciously acquired theatres in the previous decade and was now suffering from the vast debts it had accumulated on the way. John Hertz of Lehman Bros was appointed Chairman of Paramount’s Finance Committee in November 1931. His first decision was to cut all film budgets by a third and institute a reduction in salaries for all studio personnel.

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