Forbidden Hollywood, Volume 7

Resource Information

The work Forbidden Hollywood, Volume 7 represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Austin Public Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Label

Forbidden Hollywood, Volume 7

Title number

Volume 7

Statement of responsibility

Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc

Title variation

Forbidden Hollywood

Contributor

• Young, Loretta, 1913-2000
• White, Alice, 1907-1983
• First National Pictures, Inc
• Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
• Turner Entertainment Co
• Vitaphone Corp
• Warner Bros. Entertainment
• Warner Home Video (Firm)
• Abdullah, Achmed, 1881-1945
• Alexander, J. Grubb
• Barbier, George, 1864-1945
• trueBelasco, David, 1853-1931
• trueDavis, Bette, 1908-1989
• Del Ruth, Roy, 1893-1961
• Digges, Dudley, 1879-1947
• Dodd, Claire, 1908-1973
• Florey, Robert, 1900-1979
• Ford, Wallace, 1898-1966
• Foster, Norman, 1903-1976
• Hersholt, Jean, 1886-1956
• Jenkins, Allen, 1900-1974
• McHugh, Frank, 1899-1981
• O'Sullivan, Maureen, 1911-1998
• Owsley, Monroe, 1900-1937
• Page, Anita, 1910-2008
• Ratoff, Gregory, 1897-1960
• Raymond, Gene
• trueRobinson, Edward G., 1893-1973
• Selwyn, Edgar, 1875-1944
• Strozzi, Kay
• Teasdale, Verree
• Wellman, William A., 1896-1975
• William, Warren, 1895-1948

Subject

• Drama
• Feature films
• Gangsters
• Gangsters -- California | San Francisco -- Drama
• Man-woman relationships
• Man-woman relationships -- Drama
• Marriage
• Marriage -- Drama
• Romance films
• Romance films
• Supervisors
• Supervisors -- Drama
• Tongs (Secret societies)
• Tongs (Secret societies) -- California | San Francisco -- Drama
• Feature films
• Entrepreneurship -- Drama
• Entrepreneurship
• Adultery
• Adultery -- Drama
• California -- San Francisco
• Crime films
• Crime films

Genre

• Crime films
• Romance films
• Feature films
• Drama

Language

eng

Summary

• The hatchet man: A Tong executioner allows his wife to run off with a gangster only to learn she's been sold into prostitution
• Skyscraper souls: A financier stops at nothing to gain control of a 100-story office building and a naive young woman
• Employees' entrance: A tyrannical department store manager chases after profits and a young woman
• Ex-lady: An artist who doesn't believe in marriage reluctantly weds her lover only to discover he's seeing another woman

Related

• Skyscraper souls
• Employees' entrance
• Ex-lady
• Hatchet man

Member of

• Archive collection
• Forbidden Hollywood, 7

Cataloging source

WIQ

Characteristic

videorecording

Credits note

• Hatchet man: a First National & Vitaphone picture; based on a play by Achmed Abdullah & David Belasco; screenplay by J. Grubb Alexander; directed by William A. Wellman
• Skyscraper souls: a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer picture; directed by Edgar Selwyn
• Employees' entrance: a First National & Vitaphone picture; directed by Roy Del Ruth
• Ex-lady: a First National & Vitaphone picture; directed by Robert Florey

Intended audience

Not rated

Language note

English dialogue

PerformerNote

• Hatchet man: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Dudley Digges
• Skyscraper souls: Warren William, Maureen O'Sullivan, Gregory Ratoff, Anita Page, Verree Teasdale, Jean Hersholt, Norman Foster, George Barbier
• Employees' entrance: Warren William, Loretta Young, Wallace Ford, Alice White, Allen Jenkins
• Ex-lady: Bette Davis, Gene Raymond, Monroe Owsley, Frank McHugh, Claire Dodd, Kay Strozzi

Runtime

313

Series statement

• Forbidden Hollywood collection
• Archive collection

Technique

live action