North Dakota farm girl Esther Victoria Blodgett yearns to become a Hollywood actress. Although her aunt and father discourage such thoughts, Esther's grandmother gives Esther her savings to follow her dream.
Esther goes to Hollywood and tries to land a job as an extra, but so many others have had the same idea that the casting agency has stopped accepting applications. Esther is told that her chances of becoming a star are one in 100,000. She befriends a new resident at her boarding house, assistant director Danny McGuire, himself out of work. When Danny and Esther go to a concert to celebrate Danny's employment, Esther has her first encounter with Norman Maine, an actor she admires greatly. Norman has been a major star for years, but his alcoholism has sent his career into a downward spiral.
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Janet Gaynor as Esther Blodgett/Vicki Lester ジャネット・ゲイナー Fredric March as Norman Maine フレドリック・マーチ Adolphe Menjou as Oliver Niles アドルフ・マンジュー May Robson as Grandmother Lettie Blodgett メイ・ロブソン Andy Devine as Daniel "Danny" McGuire アンディ・ディヴァイン Lionel Stander as Matt Libby ライオネル・スタンダー
Nominated Best Picture Best Director (William A Welman) Best Actor (Fredric March) Best Actress (Janet Gaynor) Best Adapted Screenplay Best Assistant Director
Fatty, Keaton and St John play stagehands at a theater preparing the sets for the next big show. Fatty puts up a sign on the front door of the theater reading:
YOU MUST NOT MISS
GERTRUDE McSKINNY
FAMOUS STAR WHO WILL
PLAY THE LITTLE LAUNDRESS
FIRST TIME HERE
TOMORROW AT 2PM
But upon returning inside the theatre he unwittingly leaves the door open so it obscures the left side of the sign and appears to read:
MISS SKINNY WILL UNDRESS HERE AT 2PM
The evening's entertainment arrives, first an extremely flexible dancer whom Fatty and Keaton feebly attempt to mimic. Next, a tall and egotistical, strongman who badly mistreats his assistant (Mahone). The staff attempt to defend the assistant but the strongman is so powerful that he is able to blow Fatty away using only his breath and does not even flinch when Keaton repeatedly hits him over the head with an axe. Eventually the staff manage to subdue the strongman by challenging him to prove his immense strength by lifting a heavy weight then electrocuting him. That night the theater is completely full (due to the partially obscured sign) but due to his treatment earlier the strongman quits and takes the dancer with him forcing Fatty, Keaton and the assistant to plan an operetta, which they title "The Falling Reign", at short notice. Fatty and Keaton dress in drag and perform an elaborate dance act. The dancer who quit earlier is in the audience and frequently heckles the show but is soon dispatched when Keaton's dancing proves to energetic and launches him into the audience knocking the dancer out. The second act is a routine in which Fatty and Keaton are being covered with fake snow but the theater is so hot that Keaton has to fan himself and take off his coat, ruining the illusion. Things are made worse when the man slowly releasing the fake snow accidentally drops the whole bag onto Fatty, and during a scene where Fatty is serenading the assistant who sits in the window of the facade of a house, Keaton accidentally bumps into it knocking it over and causing it to fall towards Fatty but the open window fits neatly around his body saving him from harm. Despite the show being a disaster, the audience nevertheless applaud and roar with laughter, believing the performers fumbles to be part of the act. The strongman, sitting in the audience, is outraged that his assistant is now a success. He produces a gun and shoots her before starting a brawl with the entire stage team. As Keaton and St John keep the strongman busy, Fatty loads a trunk full of weights and drops it on the strongman's head, knocking him out. The short ends with Fatty visiting the assistant in the hospital who is recovering well.
Cast
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle - Stagehand ロスコー・アーバックル Buster Keaton - Stagehand バスター・キートン Al St. John - Stagehand アル・セント・ジョン Charles A. Post - Strongman チャールズ・A・ポスト Molly Malone - Strongman's Assistant モリー・マローン John Henry Coogan Jr. - Eccentric Dancer ジョン・クーガン
From a lost expedition to a plateau in the borders of Peru, Brazil and Colombia, Paula White brings the journal of her father, explorer Maple White, to the eccentric Professor Challenger in London. The journal features sketches of dinosaurs which is enough proof for Challenger to publicly announce that dinosaurs still walk the earth. Met with ridicule at an academic meeting at the Zoological Hall, Challenger reluctantly accepts a newspaper's offer to finance a mission to rescue Maple White. Professor Challenger, Paula White, sportsman Sir John Roxton, news reporter Edward Malone (who is a friend of Roxton and wishes to go on the expedition to impress his fiancée), a skeptical professor Summerlee, an Indian servant Zambo, and Challenger's butler Austin leave for the plateau.
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Bessie Love as Paula White ベッシー・ラヴ Lewis Stone as Sir John Roxton ルイス・ストーン Lloyd Hughes as Edward Malone ロイド・ヒューズ Wallace Beery as Professor Challenger ウォーレス・ビアリー Arthur Hoyt as Professor Summerlee アーサー・ホイト
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as himself コナン・ドイル・・・・オープニングのイントロダクションに登場
Today’s Doodle celebrates the 94th birthday of British scientist and author Anne McLaren, who is widely considered one of the most significant reproductive biologists of the 20th century. Her fundamental research on 1embryology has helped countless people 2realize their dreams of parenthood.
Anne McLaren was born in London on this day in 1927. As a child, she had a small role in the 1936 H.G. Wells’ sci-fi film “The Shape of Things to Come.” In the scene−set in 2054−her great-grandfather lectured her on the advancement of space technology that had put mice on the moon. McLaren credits this 3formative, albeit fictional, history lesson as one of the early inspirations for her love of science. She went on to study zoology at the University of Oxford, where her passion for science only grew as she learned from talented biologists such as Peter Medawar−a Nobel laureate for his research on the human 4immune system.
１ 発生学 ２ 親になるという夢を実現する ３ 形成可能な ４ 免疫系
In the 1950s, McLaren began to work with mice to further understand the biology of 5mammalian development. While the subjects of her research were tiny, the implications of their study proved massive. By successfully growing mouse 6embryos 7in vitro (in lab equipment), McLaren and her colleague John Biggers demonstrated the possibility to create healthy embryos outside of the mother’s womb.
５ 哺乳類の ６ 胎芽 ７ 体外受精で
These landmark findings−published in 1958−8paved the way for the development of in vitro fertilization (IVF) technology that scientists first used successfully with humans twenty years later. However, the development of IVF technology carried major 9ethical controversy along with it. To this end, McLaren served as the only research scientist on the Warnock Committee (est. 1982), a governmental body dedicated to the development of policies related to the advances in IVF technology and embryology. Her expert council to the committee played an essential role in the enactment of the 1990 Human Fertilization and Embryology Act−10watershed, yet contentious, legislation which limits in-vitro culture of human embryos to 14-days post embryo creation.
８ 道を開く ９ 倫理上の 道徳上の １０重大な転機となる
In 1991, McLaren was appointed Foreign Secretary, and later vice-president, of the world’s oldest scientific institution−11The Royal Society−at the time becoming the first woman to ever hold office within the institution’s 330-year-old history.
McLaren １２discovered her passion for learning at a young age and aspired to spark this same enthusiasm for science in children and society at large. In 1994, the British Association for the Advancement of Science−an institution dedicated to the promotion of science to the general public (now the British Science Association)−elected her as its president. Through the organization and its events, McLaren engaged audiences across Britain on the wonders of science, engineering, and technology with the aim of making these topics more accessible to everyone.
Happy birthday, Anne McLaren. Thank you for all your incredible work and for inspiring many new generations to come because of it!
