The Invisible Man

THE INVINSIBLE MAN ( 1933)

Another Lasky production of 1933 was an adaptation of the stage success, The Warrior's Husband. Elissa Landi played the role originally acted by Katharine Hepburn.

David O. Selznick produced Dancing Lady, a story of backstage life, for M-G-M in 1933, starring Joan Crawford, with Clark Cable and Franchot Tone. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy played insignificant supporting parts.

H. G. Wells' fantastic novelette, The Invisible Man, finally reached the screen, with Claude Rains, shown here, playing the title role. James Whale directed.

Greta Garbo, who had returned to her native Sweden for a vacation, talked of retiring from pictures. She returned, however, in 1933, to find M-G-M waiting for her with Queen Christina, a script based on the life of the famous ruler. Her leading man was John Gilbert. Rouben Mamoulian directed.

In 1933 the girl who had been briefly featured in Forty-second Street was promoted to be Fred Astaire's dancing partner in Flying Down to Rio. So began the career of the screen's most famous dance team. Thornton Freeland directed the picture for RKO.

The success of Wallace Beery and Marie Dressler in Min and Bill made a follow-up to that picture inevitable. It emerged in 1933, as Tugboat Annie, and received a warm welcome from the fans. This was one of the last pictures Miss Dressler made. She died in 1934.