NET Playhouse; 227; 30s: The Movie Crazy Years

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talk like that that someone really imagine we talk like that no matter the miracle was not how well movies talk but that they could talk it all the company these were the first words ever spoken on the screen the year was nineteen twenty seven and the film with a jazz singer many many many many many the miracle enunciated in the jazz singer loud hollywood to soar above the disaster area known as wall street helped the whole country is being briefly cheaply from its depression

in the thirties we stood in line for all the necessities a silly and red and movies there were literally more movie houses than banks there were a lot more prosperous and a lot more harm they gave us metaphors that brought us together regardless of the glass ideology for a few minutes anyway manufacturing overtime gangsters are ever more spectacular musicals faces begin to emerge from the crowd and a contract and they force the studio to create under protest hostess and their personalities he's being

there were dignified biographies for a dignified actor named paul muni that gave the world of liberty and there was a girl plan as well but above all there was the studio it had not been easy to establish it was new to prosperity and the man who owned it would like to protect it against threats real and imaginary all of them had been a businessman of one kind or another who were looking for a business that had a future and they had the perception find out that motion pictures without business and they came into it as businessman and they were perfectly right this was the business yet i'm sure that well more well educated person's of their time and of their age when a full motion

pictures from imagination a team of a large and they were also not the sort of man you would like to have for your father of all because it was a family affair at the beginning the four brothers and eight and rough times geographically so your ambitions there were periods when you have a problem meeting the payroll and it was just a struggle as sam was the one largely responsible and bringing samba and took pictures in the tragic thing that the first sound picture that when it opened in new york and sam warner died two days before the opening harry warner was the financial genius he's one who masterminded all the money problems and now mark warner only been released i was in charge

of the sales jack warner was the one who was always involved and in fact the production and very knowledgeable showman he could recognize a piece of material as having box office a country out of me jack was the famous warner brother and it was you set the tone of life on the lot about him about that tone there was differences of opinion is rather special studio it was a small compact spinney well organized efficient route from the rest of the town because it was over the co anchor in the san fernando valley and sixty degrees colder than some ten fifteen degrees in the summer we have a company contract and discipline was quite right it was a unique studio in that it had

on reels to your spirit and a man and a boy scout sense but we all rooted for each other's work they get in it in a way that i never observed are again in any studio the us has to do is oftentimes very tense penny wise pound foolish visit a fire five waitresses at bon ten in the state introduces playing the horses all day long and then they would perhaps and everything was wrong when they ask us all takeout somalis it also has it was a very disciplined studio that was you know there was no there was no fooling around and work very very obvious six day we call it how jack warner was enjoying as far as i was concerned has been toward him it was a loving feeling to know that was a boston was like having probably the best view looking young danny than anyone ever and i did

not at war that is well enough to talk to him most difficult process and i felt or trying to what i was really talking to fool her yet i discovered that i was the fool for not recognizing the driving intelligence which made this man be considered at one time at the dying of aids progressive elements in motion picture industry he says you have to drive to a profit since know about the areas in which they could be made in the first years of a new decade his nose led into the underworld one year in the early thirties hollywood made fifty gangster films but warner brothers made a memorable ones and saw in the hoodlums rise and fall of a parable about the rise of social and economic ideas but also might be heading for a fall back

i suppose it had a great deal of importance in a great deal of interest in its own day because of the prohibition era documentary an everyday occurrence but we have in those days he timed it mr capone was grabbing all the headline had i couldn't see rise of visualize myself as a tax that you know i kept a robertson a little safer i had a very big save the island and around the island which would change both of those days and in iran the big guys i want to get a big close up way up to here with the video yet to issue what should fast and me that one issue we took the gun and shot like this it closes i lived at how to keep your eyes open

that i'm giving my eyes out because like a good is a big egg at closing its eyes this work so we took some tape about his idol right people we never could do it to me and they actually get to keep his eyes open so he didn't do this one a shot not just a guy who i think on the violence that was the only little seasonal designed for and melodramatic and i think perhaps if it succeeded tall and evidently has had regular longevity often i often wondered why that is because in the abstract id id id the construction of it was exactly that it had a beginning middle and amanda michel was like a character in the greek tragedy one of the five of dogs in society and it's finally more downed an indian dies and he doesn't know why it happened is a mother a cupboard ruled that it's

a guard in those days was mother of mercy is this the end of a lot of recourse that we have the recall no no no i know where you are well we are going to tell you they have the memo

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little caesar was a rather literary conception there were tougher more violent things to say about our public enemy's i came lawyers chasing girls getting pictures and out there at my friend and partner to the question how and collaborated with me in a novel called dear god the year pays office wouldn't allow blood to be used in a title we ever dream up a new one and and because the phrase public enemy was in the headlines because a crime investigation in chicago it it became part of a national vocabulary and tidal page i was wandering around a lot one day in a couple of young men came up and they were drug list from chicago in the district and they had a story that they'd written called

the air and blood and they begged me to read and they seem to be very nicely took me to lunch and thirty i guess they bought me some drinks anyway i said yes i'd read it which i did and went absolutely crazy about it and that was what became public enemy and i took of his attic and said this is the greatest archive of cola bought it he read it he said look i can't take a chance i just made little seasoned lawyer dale and i don't wanna make another loan and the world picture but he said you give me one reason why you think you can do it and to make a great picture out and i said i'm naked the toughest picture them all the filthy ago it's been the candidate and i have a way to get a lot of caregiving yours that i know

i know life became the peak what do you think it was running a rod during all all kinds of things even cagney pushing the grapefruit in a clock face is not good gentleman jack was that was the grapefruit thing written into the squad if you invent that i invented it because i then maduro called note from we didn't care we weren't and if you have the time yes bottom

you know i again again again where you were going that's ak the reason there was excessive any motion pictures is multiple and complex but there sometimes certain qualities stand out as as significant in the case of public enemy i think it's the basic and most important reason for its success was its attitude toward forty i had almost gleeful some of its nose at

authority through personally and the astonishing personally of jimmy cagney the thing that made successful word one word cagney it's been the

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been not a question of political ad whether they do gamers really the cause of violence the effect of violent when they finally did not cause us to be repealed and violent there are to entertaining we were exciting oh sure that's a motion picture form i don't you

guys by nineteen thirty three everybody was certain that the movie's traditionally billed as all talking all singing all dancing at top song and catch themselves to their victims of overexposure they reckoned without the talents of an important us better known as his first musical forty second street was sneaked into production about jack warner's consent but the finished product changed his mind about this law and the public's today we think of workers workers camp it was ingenious as well as ingenuous use the camera and the bass sound stages more going more imaginative than anyone had the key thank

you it well my main idea was for my stubborn pictured was doing something i've never seen before honestly so i had to do something or do something creative and something that will entertain an audience and so those three things in mind i went to work and

put on the screen such pictures may busby berkeley was great fun to work with he was gutsy had that same enthusiasm that i keep speaking of that mean so much and everybody he was a crazy man he would be way up in the sky on these enormous sets of the lavish camera crew reason way up top two little birds in a tiny nes annie cool black and there would be a pool full of a hundred girls' swimming and women wonderful formation ballet the

peak and again our airmen at my numbers i visualize in my mind i wanted to come out on the street so i rehearsed in that way that way and every form of when i shoot go to go to the next one a culmination of molokai version the togetherness think you will know whether or not i should i commonly onion will know that i remember he learned

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and ideas have to think and think can think and think and tried to create something there'll be better than what i had done before and i didn't really get into the poll shows very difficult for me to do a top myself say one picture grandma lived for years i had to be at least as good if not better than the last picture it the lullaby of broadway is berkeley's favorite number and tells a story a nightmare really about a broadway baby sleeps by day and lives by night it may be the most sinister musical sequence ever phone and in its compelling rhythms one of the most memorable it's both it's been the peaks

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at a low rank as an anchor named rachel weiss the country and everybody knows are worried about the state of the union and the state of the world gideon a lawyer and on a what happened last summer all like this worry about well i

tried to give them an occasional homage to take their mind away from all that police we came to play the king the

key any the paintings we can i think we were always looking for material it was not only entertaining but materially and reflection

on certain elements in society jack horner was conscious of that i was conscious of the head of the studio and they're looking for material air thank you the chain gang of place a forgotten man the subject of one of the periods great movies i am a fugitive from a chain gang it was based on the autobiography of this man robert burns who twice escaped from a chain gang in georgia

was people think that i have made through the shenyang as a motion picture one of you you would call it i never made a message picture my life you know it you're saying if you want a semi mythical a western union when i only made movies because they were interesting and they were real and they were down to earth and told stories ms butler no i can't erling edition felt sorry for this poor guy a lot of la paz and then another guy who actually was hungry yes we went down to one of these fees like disease like a chuck wagon and they were eating their neck and i held up the place a job getting out of what was a beautiful story huh

as buchanan's beirut it's a promise that many it was all i want to get back to that in that there are banking the people here are nine more years later kwanzaa was that mine was another one to be jane not only you don't have to stay here nine years jim the commission voted that if you're a model prisoner for one year they've conceded to have a drug addiction simple only nine months nine months he's been a good idea

after his second escape this new jersey court refused to extradite burns to georgia we can be very thankful for a hot mama and cable guy cable and i don't think that i will have a plan for the remainder of my life only the ending of the movie was less happy but powerfully instructed that your home game you can follow nick and i was going to do they did this election though india can find it on itunes or they encounter when i don't know if there will be it but i have to

go home tj hollywood came late to the depression a subject matter it saw its jobs providing escape from harsh economic reality it really spoke directly about what hard times we're doing to ordinary people ordinary lives for many however the road the desperate wide ranging search for work was as this newsreel shows the central reality of the early thirties of fact we had difficulty gathering for most fictional creatures

this sequence however is taken from one of the rare features that did try to come to grips with economic reality is william weld loose wild boys a home loan is about kids looking for work and finding only trouble and in a style that owed much to the newsreels it demonstrated the necessity to blend of traditional reliance on self reliance with the new imperative to care for one another it's both fb

that's wow boy you know there is a beautiful girl by america right now as you play the lead in this or wow boy who wrote it down in a lot of the issues is hold onto their frankie boyle's great actresses to help ms

benton right does one crime in belgrade and a disturbance i'm always trying to get your way you know what i make anybody we got permission at dr don't tell me what to do you have the authors start moving on you ms

bonnie raitt has been anyone who is accountable you reckon he'd welcome help me to send you to reform what are your enemy to side and i've got to keep your history what do you read oh let's ally your sellers together you know honestly is you want to get when you can do it cause i'm not the only one that it is more you know every day during the papers about giving people know the banks get it so just get it the brewery get they're all yelling about giving it to the farmers

about as ricky it was huge mr hunter yeah it's b not only here in new york but all over the country i know you're following returned to work that means you can go back to school i want you to promise me that when you've made enough money to buy a ticket and will likely weigh the law the united states

my eyes burn nameless unreasoning unjustified without i mean at the very end i got a father one remaining in the room and we thought that given our way larger than the amount that they had re up a plant that would be the main employer in fact when they get by the case became david

the whole country and listed in this first and greatest war against poverty and hollywood in its peculiar way you need to poop to pay any it's b these

beacons yeah those were the days when the studios also owns nearly the most prosperous days for studio employees or those years in which business was very bad so that they see as her which ordinarily would run a picture for a week could run it only for three days because there was not enough business pardon the result was that the studio had to make prices many pictures are filled with the editors and the nsa was just calming everybody was happy and there were in fact warner's was a factory but its stars were happy workers and in making films than it was a

you know overpowering teamwork between a director and best as agatha was just the warner the color the lighting guy a camera man they were all in on the cutting of it and the scoring of that everybody got everybody else's jesus going you know it was a glorious time of my life and so they report every day was an existent camaraderie this summer's nonexistent today and was a carousel jill and on the new look forward are going to work every day worked that we've launched six days a week where the friday we came in and it became her problem abuse an overused word was a one big family i need it

some of the pages i guess we're kind of silly but baine moved to the people of that time a they went right along with that sudden and it helped them get along i could tell by the fan mail and i got how much really win and the lives of young people at that particular time in our history people like grouper the election in those days the accelerated dialogue at all that and i finally realized that i like that

warren that made me work there could be a in the terminology of we're an assembly line because we turned out so many pictures and at times they many times they weren't that good but it was you know those days the contract is and when my hand even though we know that we were unlicensed and they because they're getting a lot of money a lot of money and they're fabulous our isn't and sometimes it is easy to forget that the film actually it was also easy to get lost warner brothers last gable when jack warner decreed his ears were to bake for stardom this young woman made her first big impression in a warner brothers movie but somehow got away to

mgm live no studio head fully understood that the great star careers were based on the assertion of individuality them and only meant trouble they must appoint william wellman grass much earlier gary cooper when i hadn't wings it in one little short scenes and witnesses that saw eye with a big airplane a bob dibuono short scene where body rise in the economy as we do that the old that you know and then i knew that and that was when it was silent days union striking figure that he would always remember a knife it got a group and he did the scene in a long story short when it was all over came up to my suite we're down in san antonio texas and he an equally mr wellman is

admitted in a new stumbling on shot away which i wished i could imitate he said could i do it over again just for nothing and feel anyway why i'm in the direct line which wouldn't you like and he said well i'm in the middle of the thing i get my knowledge and i said i'm thinking you know you're watching it and they just couldn't resist tampering with people or that anyone's and said they really wanted to a make me lose my list while i do i said i hate to say i can't tell you what i don't know is you groan was when the school is and they had a very innovative taken out in cars you expect it to really cooperate with the

publicity department which was the department engaged in projecting some kind of extraordinary fantasy about what you were which they thought would be attracted to the public and here you are burdened with this kind of public image that was the product of the imagination of the publicity department and you didn't know it was all about and how big in july can't imagine you have a responsibility to kind of hang out what their image was all about and then cooperating with that and that was a big waste time he's your main problem at that very early age was to find out who you are that was your business than you are obliged to evade that critical question and the whole question of real identity your own and it was fine that by your environment and you're obliged to neglect that the financial questions all

realize and they had an idea of women every morning before breakfast thank you well i was all right for a while i don't mind that but it does get a little bit boring and find out it seemed to me i need someone to check another cash and i think it was the same script the same laugh lines all images change my clothes yeah i'll be a difficult part of that is the debt if you stay in show business is i had all these years you're changing a girl and you're thinking changes in your personality changes

and they'll it change who i suppose were directed at cornell on a prayer so it was quite imposing on a working as industry again they don't want it which is a sense of this sort which produces gaps between jack border get drafted of activity and delinquency me read it he sort of half a year he was the kind of warped and as a wharton very you know ryan model is that in that too of course a good way if you turned down the film which was absolutely not permitted to put into solitary which was disabled but aung lay off and without paying anything you can bury and you know

and they had occupations your contract for exclusive price there wasn't a great feeling about the artistic world between the front office and day is you had a hang onto like really get yourself and try and make it come up to that it was not just a commercial venture that was always in trouble with the big studio and those of us who made the film but this is an actual is a natural thing that they actually are investing money and the interest is the money and they were never from an artistic professions start with we even we couldn't it betty davis was the greatest of the rebels she may have needed the front office but she also knew that she had to be truth or so if she was to have the succession to leave pre ordained george ellis gave her the first great opportunity of her movie career and on the strength of her work in the man who played god warner brothers gave her a long term contract for her only a beginning not an end

in itself thank you my mind i think is that a lot of necessary to the actors who are now sixty under wonders in achieving i would do something with my life i would not i was born in massachusetts and that the only ideas that i knew i would not just go up and i can live in the suburbs so i guess i didn't really i would do something with my life and as it turned out the first thing i tried which was actually worked out if i see some sign eventually in five or six years that it was going to work out it's

ugly out the cousin to anybody who was the area's listening in areas not to be first the economy secretary for a bit so whenever i would do would have to be on what happened in paris it's been enough body has been she won an academy award for dangerous but the spies the movie it

was typical she thought of the bad rosen bad movies the studio had forced upon her i knew that if i continued to play media say collaborative being forced to play she could get very and nobody wanted to buy that and she passed jack award and she really did i think he warns that how it but none of the rest of the column and in fact in law to that she was a lie and this and that and though she got her a notch a sort of which wanted to do with not having you think you know i snuck out of the caption who are marching on to england review the montreal and the building and hit in the head and john before we let the hard months he also didn't know because if they have an injunction from was that they knew either writing in the second

day that he was handed a piece of paper could not work and the trial was planned trial lasted three days the storm's fury said staying for it has yet to chase apache hastings that was one of the great great viruses of london opened a child by saying i'm afraid in august the action very naughty young lady i had a marvelous man needs to wage hourly really had had worked on another night and the argument was a limitation of contract that this was slavery that for however long however many suspensions i had which would be end of the regional conflict i was this way the rest of my life she lost the battle in the courts but won the war with the studio she

came back in march woman playing a call girl who went over to the side of the law she like robert russians perhaps in part because he gave his highly appropriate speech you were on a hot button on getting to attract and i'm not making any indication that they either in a way not have been burned uprooted it i know and i think i'm smart enough to keep one step ahead of them like it enough to capital in a ninety three the rest of my life it would allow the uk now i ever have to play a parachute jump over a housewife all men the black hat the bureau of missing persons guess i never did have that again the

melody of the campaign thank you i know thank you

and forth she won her second academy award it was perhaps a consolation prize since her fight with the studio that kept her from planes to win let me go

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i knew it the people that they'd be interesting people but for the most prominent contender russ he's very visible agreed on how insects manage to be very much but that's to be an actor is one should be able to do about nine more closely identify with play another type of woman but that's when i remembered more psych newspapers don't write about a good marriage is the right of a bad marriages so to play some very evil act that you associate with that much more than men heroin's with all its inherent to die she had her problems but she was basically not an evil woman i don't know

it's because beans but after that particular reason why are categories so i love and that are living by listening to regulating the time of the country in the world and only time it made me not want to cooperate and will continue to be the shadow on her and i think that that would outlaw and if you do that enough for you the day we started

filming it as the one that set all instead of letting you enjoy playing this beautiful pot that anybody will ever go into a theater and see a story about a girl