Moving Picture Stories – August 26, 1930

Description: This is the August 26, 1930, issue of Moving Picture Stories (“Love Stories from the Screen”). Its cover features a photo of Norma Shearer. There is also a feature article on Shearer in the magazine. “That’s That” features photos of Constance Bennett, Dorothy Mackaill, Richard Barthelmess and Marian Nixon. Among the movies featured in the magazine are Wild Company, The Florodora Girl, Sea Bat, Prince of Diamonds and Cobra. Wild Company is a 1930 American pre-Code drama directed by Leo McCarey. The film stars Frank Albertson, Joyce Compton, Sharon Lynn, H. B. Warner, Richard Keene and Frances McCoy. The film was released on July 5, 1930, by Fox Film Corporation. Although Bela Lugosi had a relatively brief role in this film as a nightclub owner, his character's murder provides a pivotal plot point. Prince of Diamonds is a 1930 American pre-Code adventure film directed by Karl Brown and A. H. Van Buren. The film stars Aileen Pringle, Ian Keith, Fritzi Ridgeway, Tyrell Davis, Claude King and Tom Ricketts. The film was released on March 26, 1930, by Columbia Pictures. The Florodora Girl is a 1930 American pre-Code drama film directed by Harry Beaumont. The film stars Marion Davies, Lawrence Gray, Walter Catlett, and Ilka Chase. The film was released on May 31, 1930, by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The magazine contains 36 pages and measures approximately 8.25 x 11 inches. Edith Norma Shearer (August 11, 1902 – June 12, 1983) was a Canadian-American actress who was active in films from 1919 through 1942. Shearer often played spunky, sexually liberated women. She appeared in adaptations of works by Noël Coward, Eugene O'Neill, and William Shakespeare, and was the first five-time Academy Award acting nominee, winning Best Actress for The Divorcee (1930). Reviewing Shearer's work, Mick LaSalle called her a feminist pioneer, or “the exemplar of sophisticated modern womanhood and... the first American film actress to make it chic and acceptable to be single and not a virgin on screen.” On September 29, 1927, Shearer married Irving Thalberg in what was the Hollywood wedding of the year. About 3.5 years earlier (April 26, 1924), Louis B. Mayer Pictures was merged with Metro Pictures and the Samuel Goldwyn Company to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Thalberg was made head of production of MGM in 1925, at the age of 26, helping MGM become the most successful studio in Hollywood. During his 12 years with MGM, until his premature death at the age of 37, he produced 400 films, most of which bore his imprint and innovations, including story conferences with writers, sneak previews to gain early feedback, and extensive re-shooting of scenes to improve the film. In addition, he introduced horror films to audiences and coauthored the "Production Code," guidelines for morality followed by all studios. During the 1920s and 1930s, he synthesized and merged the world of stage drama and literary classics with Hollywood films. Shearer and Thalberg had two children.

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