The Power and the Glory, Ziegfeld Follies, Little Women

A Lasky production of 1933 was The Power and the Glory, in which he starred Colleen Moore and Spencer Tracy.

W. C. Fields had become famous as a tramp juggler and pantomimist first in vaudeville, then with the Ziegfeld Follies, when Poppy, a musical comedy in which he appeared with Madge Kennedy in 1923, revealed that he had not only a speaking voice, but also an unerring gift for delivering comic lines. When talkies came to Hollywood, so did Fields.

Mitchell Leisen began his picture career as a designer and then as art director for Cecil B. DeMille, a post he held for twelve years before becoming a director on his own. His first picture was Cradle Song, for Paramount. It featured Dorothea Wieck, who had been brought to Hollywood as a result of her touching performance in Mädchen in Uniform.

Louisa May Alcott's classic, Little Women, was screened in 1933, under George Cukor's direction. Here are the feminine members of the cast: Jean Parker (Beth), Joan Bennett (Amy), Katharine Hepburn (Jo), and Frances Dee (Meg), Spring Byington, as their mother.

Paramount brought Alice in Wonderland to the screen in 1933, with an all-star cast that included Gary Cooper, Cary Grant, Charles Ruggles, Jack Oakie, Richard Arlen, Alison Skipworth, Edna May Oliver, and, as Alice, Charlotte Henry. Norman McLeod directed. Despite all this array of talent, the picture was disappointing. Everybody was masked (the Plum Pudding is a good example), so that the actors had only their voices to rely on, and the whole production was heavily literal and left nothing to the imagination.