Valley People (Short Story Index Reprint Series) by FrancesMarion Hardcover, 282 Pages, Published 1935 by Ayer Co Pub ISBN-13: 978-0-8369-3776-3, ISBN: 0-8369-3776-7
"The night that Gray told us he was going to marry Lynn, Joel swallowed some
gopher poison. Dr. Griswold had to use the stomach pump and I prayed all night
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"Mary Pickford plays two roles in this film; it is a testament to her phenomenal acting talent that we really see her as two completely different characters. In the title role of Stella Maris, Pickford portrays a lovely young woman, paralyzed from childhood, whose wealthy, aristocratic parents have kept her utterly sheltered from the ugly realities of the outside world. As poor little orphan girl Unity Blake, Pickford is literally unreco ..."
"The heart of this spunky, sweetly beautiful film is lovely, feisty Mary Pickford, of the baby face, lush curls, and sturdy little body. Pickford is Amarilly Jenkins, a poor lass from San Francisco's Clothes-Line Alley, hard by Chinatown. She's proud of her heritage, a long line of Irish washerwomen: "I likes scrubbin'!" She's content in her poverty, sharing "Irish turkey" (meatloaf?) dinners with her roly-poly ma, played by Kate Price-- ..."
"In this visually intoxicating sequal to Valentino's career-defining film The Sheik, the screen's greatest lover portrays a cultured yet untamed young man who is lured into a theives' trap by a beautiful dancer, Yasmin (Vilma Banky). After escaping, he kidnaps the damsel and holds her capitve in this desert lair, gowning her in Arabian finery and threatening to unleash his violent passions upon her. Plot is almost inconsequential in The ..."
"Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy may not come immediately to mind as a classic screen team, but they are terrific together in this crackling melodrama set on the California waterfront. Tracy is superb as Dutch Miller, a scrappy fisherman too bullheaded to notice that pretty, pugnacious little cannery worker Hattie (Harlow) is stuck on him. When Dutch and Hattie finally do get together, the sexual heat they generate is something to see. He' ..."
"Until it gets all sappy at the end, this is a crackerjack melodrama written by Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes) and starring Clark Gable as Eddie, another colorful addition to his rogue's gallery. Eddie's a Depression-era hustler. When his latest scam goes awry, he hightails it into a nearby building and into the apartment of Ruby (legendary platinum blonde bombshell Jean Harlow, who teamed memorably with Gable in Red Dust and Chin ..."
"One of Greta Garbo's touchstone films, this 1937 adaptation of the Alexandre Dumas novel finds the actress playing a dying courtesan who falls in love with a young nobleman (a slightly miscast Robert Taylor) and must sacrifice her happiness. Directed by George Cukor (The Philadelphia Story), the supreme "women's director" in Hollywood at the time, the film could have existed just to give Garbo room to be luminous (despite her character' ..."
"One is compelled to say, in these Politically Correct times, that Northwest Passage takes a distinctly "unenlightened" view of the 18th-century American colonists' Indian neighbors. Then again, everything about the world portrayed in this early-Technicolor production is harsh: the repressive policies of the Crown-backed Boston magistrates, the expectations Maj. Robert Rogers (Spencer Tracy) has for his guerrilla warrior band, the bloodt ..."
"A nominee for the 1932 Best Picture Oscar, Smilin' Through features Leslie Howard in the role of an embittered man whose fiancée was murdered on their wedding day by a jealous lover, and Frederic March as the lovestruck son of the killer--who will pay dearly for his father's misdeed. The film has a terrific cast, including Norma Shearer in a leading role. Quite memorable as one of the best heartbreakers (tearjerkers, if you like) out of ..."
"MGM, 1943 (BW, 104 minutes)
An ambitious talented girl from a small midwestern town crashes Broadway but before she triumphs she has to learn the hard way that no one becomes a star overnight. When Lily Mars catches the eye - and the heart - of a famous producer, she thinks she has it made, especially when the star of the show walks out in a fit of temperament. But Lily has to face the hard reality that she isn't ready for stardom - fo ..."