Word: cinemogul
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...million-plus estate of the late Cinemogul Louis B. Mayer (TIME, Nov. 11) was divided, as now disclosed in his probated will, in L. B.'s characteristically forthright manner. To L. B.'s favorite charity, the Louis B. Mayer Foundation, will go the bulk of his fortune; a remaining amount of some $2,500,000 was left to his second wife Lorena ($750,000), his daughter Irene Selznick ($500,000), his adopted daughter Suzanne ($500,000), friends and faithful retainers. But Mayer's daughter Edith, 52, and her husband, Producer William Goetz, were left with nary...
Short-fused Cinemogul Mike Todd, an openhanded sort who would pass out salted nuts at his own hanging if he owned the beer concession, last week tossed a champagne-budget party (estimates: $50,000 and up) near London for a few (estimates: 2,000 and up) of his friends. Mike's angle: none, except that, he conceded, a word or two about the London première of his zany travelogue Around the World in 80 Days might "sneak into the newspapers.'' At London's vast, varicolored Battersea Pleasure Gardens, Todd's flunkeys dealt...
...Elizabeth II celebrated her official 31st birthday (she was born on April 21, 1926, but British monarchs are feted in June, when the weather is good) by reviewing the Irish Guards at the annual Trooping of the Color. The same day she announced her birthday honors list. New peers: Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank, Sir Horace Evans, the Queen's physician, and Lieut. General Sir Willoughy Norrie. Geoffrey Crowther, editor emeritus of the prestigious weekly The Economist, and Oxford's Isaiah Berlin were knighted, and peppery old (78) Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham became a Companion of Honour...
...foot chorus girl-pretty well put together, but much too big and much too flashy. And sometimes DeMille is worse than merely flashy. It is difficult to find another instance in which so large a golden calf has been set up without objection from religious leaders. With insuperable piety, Cinemogul DeMille claims that he has tried "to translate the Bible back to its original form." the form in which it was lived. Yet what he has really done is to throw sex and sand into the movie goer's eyes for almost twice as long as anybody else...
...dissolving. The mighty major studios, which have dominated U.S. moviemaking since L. B. Mayer founded the M-G-Mpire, have been brought to humbling terms by a spectacular revolt of the stars. Hollywood, which thought it had seen everything, is seeing something new beneath the California sun: the cinemogul with a profile...