STORYBOARD: "DEDICATION OF PARK ROW"
The Tsar of
All Rushes, Will Hays (president of the Motion Picture Producers
and Distributors of America from 1922 to 1945) congratulates MPPDA member
Fox Film Corporation, and improvises a stentorian speech about the universal
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June Collyer, a 21-year-old actress who had broken into films as a Fox leading lady in 1927. Her movie career lasted a decade, although she appeared on television throughout the 1950s. She starred in five Fox movies in 1928. When this footage was shot, Collyer was in production with two John Ford silents: "Four Sons", with Margaret Mann, and "Hangmans House," with Victor McLaglen (and John Wayne in his first bit part). That fall she starred in Raoul Walshs "Me, Gangster." Ladies and gentleman, I consider it a great honor to have been made hostess here this afternoon at the dedication of Park Row on the Fox lot. We all know that the original Park Row in New York has been a molding ground of a great many world famous personalities. Well, Im holding that wish for our Park Row here. |
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Tom
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John
Ford: ?. . . .significance to this organization and to
the industry is the arrival at the Fox studios of Leon TROTSKY of the Soviet
Republic!? Boris Charsky, actor, as 'Leon Trotsky' [speaking in Russian]: Comrades, by the irony of fate I play the role of Trotsky in the new Raoul Walsh production by the Fox studio. In this production, he will show the very best anyone has ever seen. Raoul Walsh is famous for this staging of "What Price Glory?," and in this production he'll show something truly special. Outtake: You will be very grateful, comrades. This is the first time that Trotsky will be shown on the screen, who . . . . |
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