FEUD IN HOLLYWOOD
WOMEN AGAINST MEN NEW TREND IN FILMS A feud,which promises to attain : steaming hot proportions is indicated j on the Hollywood battle front, says a j London paper.
It is the women against the men, fighting it out for supremacy on the screen. The “lovey-dovey” stuff is temporarily out. Soulful romance is taking a siesta, while films dominated by women wage war against the strong adventure movies headed by males. The latest company to enter the fray is Paramount, with its “All Women Have Secrets,” a new type of story dealing with the domestic side of college life. In this one, ironically, Jean Cagney, sister of the screen’s two-fisted hero, James Cagney, makes her screen debut. The men are having their day in “Typhoon,” a saga of the South Seas, in which Dorothy Lamour is the only woman. In this film feats of armed and physical warfare counteract the dramatic feminine qualities of “All Women Have Secrets. ” Meanwhile, women are shouting from the housetops about “Hotel for Women” and “The Women,” pictures
completely dominated by feminine players. The He-Men Hit Back Not to be outdone, the male stars again retaliate in such pictorial stories of high adventure as Geste,” with Gary Cooper, Ray IVmland, Robert Preston and other typically male exponents of he-man drama. While one company is in the midst of producing “Four Wives,” expounding the woman’s side of things, another concentrates on “North-west Passage,” dealing with the dangers and hardships of early days in America. At the same time, Paramount Is putting the male actors through their rigorous paces in the North-West technicolour epic, “Untamed,” typically a man’s picture, with Patricia Morison contributing the one feminine romantic role. In “Tailspin,” woman’s proficiency in aeronautics was shown. The film was dominated by feminine stars. “Drums Along the Mohawk” gives the men another chance. Such adventure thrillers as “Rulers of the Sea,” starring Douglas Fairbanks, jun., and Will Fyffe, and “The Light That Failed,” with Ronald Colman, may possibly swing the preponderance of weight to the men’s side in the feud for supremacy on the screen.
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Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20989, 16 December 1939, Page 15 (Supplement)
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349FEUD IN HOLLYWOOD Waikato Times, Volume 125, Issue 20989, 16 December 1939, Page 15 (Supplement)
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