Word: cinemogul
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will be a wow. Almost since the day when, at 14, she came out of Allendale, N. J. and into the public eye as a Powers model, her career has been steered by an indulgent, avuncular "board of directors": John Robert Powers, Columnist Walter Winchell, Publicist Steve Hannagan, Cinemogul Robert Goldstein, Singer Morton Downey. "They're wonderful," she says. "I couldn't move without their advice." The board thinks she's rather wonderful, too. Says Powers: ". . .A modern version of Lady Hamilton and Pompadour. I couldn't be prouder...
Down the Queen Elizabeth's gangplank and on to Manhattan's Pier 90 one day last week the British movie industry stepped. Waiting on the dock, like a stack of plump pillows at the end of a laundry chute, stood a half-dozen U.S. movie executives. As Cinemogul Joseph Arthur Rank saw them, he blinked and turned up his coat collar against the chill May morning. But then Arthur Rank's face broke into a smile. He strode forward. As the expectant executive smiles faded, he walked over and wrung the hand of Judge Lewis L. Fawcett...
...Stairway to Heaven-plumpish, rumpled Writer Emeric Pressburger and high-strung, contentious Director Michael ("Micky") Powell-can boast a freedom in their work that few other moviemakers in the world enjoy. Having collaborated on some of Britain's best films (Colonel Blimp, The Invaders) they are one of Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank's most free-reined independent producing units. Mr. Rank picks up their check without bothering too much about the details of what they have ordered...
...Joseph) Arthur Rank, tall, well-set and methodical, a cinemogul of a type unfamiliar in Hollywood, let drop a few hints of his intentions...
...Cinemogul Joseph M. Schenck was bundled off to prison to serve a year and a day for perjury instead of three years for income-tax evasion. The three-year sentence given him a year ago was suspended as a reward for his testimony help in sending Laboracketeers Willie Bioff and George E. Browne to the pen for extortion...