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Movietone’s News - Reported by Lionel Gamlin: Hollywood High-Ups Arrive

Date released

25 Jun 1945

Series name

British Movietone News

Issue no

838

NoS ID

013489

Story no

2 / 4

MOVIETONE CARD TITLE: Hollywood High-Ups Arrive. DESCRIPTION: Leaders of the Hollywood Film Studios arrive in England en route to Germany. Amongst their number is Darryl Zanuck, Harry Cohn and Jack Warner,...

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Murder, My Sweet (1944)

aka: Farewell, My Lovely

Director

Edward Dmytryk

Subject

Literature

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 95 minutes), £9.99

Raymond Chandler’s celebrated novel ‘Farewell, My Lovely’ was turned into a classic film noir in 1944 with Dick Powell as the private eye Philip Marlowe.

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Oh! Oh! Cleopatra (1931 Film)

Director

Joseph Santley

RKO short primarily serving as an outlet for the comedy team of Wheeler & Woolsey. They take pills from a Professor Sweinstein and are transported into characters in history - Mark Antony and Julius Caesar.

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Edgar Hamlet (1935 Film)

Director

Arthur Ripley

Producer

Lee S. Marcus

RKO comedy short. A quiet day at home is interrupted by arguments over the source of Shakespearean speeches. Lanier (op cit) notes that the film is ‘revealing for its assumptions about the highbrow status...

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Julius Caesar (1931 Film)

Series

Humanettes

Director

Jason Leigh

Producer

Frank L. Newman

RKO Radio Pictures Short. Described on the BFI Film & Television database as ‘A travesty of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar’ and ‘Comedy short with human faces on the bodies of marionettes’.

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Tests. Mrs Patrick Campbell Screen Test (1930 Film)

A compilation of screen tests given by Mrs Patrick Campbell. Includes the sleepwalking scene from Macbeth, Palleas and Melisande (sound only), Yiddish dialect from The Matriach (sound only), and a scene from...

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Shakespeare with Tin Ears (1933 Film)

Director

Harry Sweet; Leslie Goodwins

RKO comedy short. The film has little relationship to Shakespeare and is included because of its delightful title. Two bums, Fat and Rivets, are hired by a rich man to make his daughter realise that her...

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Hamlet Screen Tests (1933 Film)

Director

Margaret Carington; Robert Edmond Jones

John Barrymore was approached in 1933 to make a film version of Hamlet. Although he had played the role many times on stage, the production company asked for a screen test, perhaps because of rumours that...

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Arizonian, The (1935 Film)

Director

Charles Vidor

Producer

Cliff Reid

Western feature film. Marshall Tallant is the sheriff protecting Silver City from outlaws. The film opens with a variety show in a saloon bar which features the ‘Ghost scene from Hamlet’ (I iv) with...

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