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Director Frank Lloyd tells Modern Screen how he made Maid of Salem, Paramount’s 1937 Claudette Colbert picture and the film that first put Tituba on an American screen

Director Frank Lloyd tells Modern Screen how he made Maid of Salem, Paramount’s 1937 Claudette Colbert picture and the film that first put Tituba on an American screen, 1937 — historic image
Director Frank Lloyd tells Modern Screen how he made Maid of Salem, Paramount’s 1937 Claudette Colbert picture and the film that first put Tituba on an American screen, 1937. Historic image from the Chapter 7 — Salem on Screen collection.

Director Frank Lloyd tells Modern Screen how he made Maid of Salem, Paramount’s 1937 Claudette Colbert picture and the film that first put Tituba on an American screen

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Created / published1937
NotesDirector Frank Lloyd tells Modern Screen how he made Maid of Salem, Paramount’s 1937 Claudette Colbert picture and the film that first put Tituba on an American screen. Source: Magazine page, “The Inside Story of ‘Maid of Salem’” by Frank Lloyd, Modern Screen, 1937, p. 11.
SubjectsFigure 7.2 in Hollywood Halloween Horrors
ReferenceFig 7.2 F0702a Maid_of_Salem_ModernScreen_1937

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