Cinema: The New Pictures: Sep. 5, 1932

Pre-reviewing Blondie of the Follies (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), the Hearst-papers last week blurbed: "Marion [Davies] plays a 'Queen of the Follies,' and it is by no chance that the role is hers, for she knows by heart the thoughts, words and deeds of the regally gilded queens of Broadway. . . . Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has assembled its greatest cast since Grand Hotel*. . . ." This cast: Robert Montgomery; Zasu Pitts, independent comic who does bit work in so many cinemas she seldom learns their plots, cannot remember their...

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