Word: cinemogul
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...Mackerel. Hartman first began giving awards in 1928 when he gave the best-dressed women award to women in public life, theater, radio, movies, etc. From the "best-dressed," it was a short jump to the gold medal. In 1934 Cinemogul Walter Wanger won the first one for his "fashion-consciousness" in making pictures. From then on, Hartman gave them at the rate of about one a year, but after World War II he started handing out medals the way the Army distributes the Bronze Star...
After more than three years in Cinemogul Hughes's vaults, Vendetta has now been released, with an advertising splurge featuring Faith Domergue in a fetching décolletage (which never appears on the screen). The film is a solemn attempt to puff up the overblown passions of Colomba, Prosper Mérimée's novel of 19th Century Corsican intrigue. It will make many a moviegoer wonder what all the shooting and reshooting were about...
...years ago, while setting up U.S. engagements for Director David (Great Expectations) Lean's version of Oliver Twist, British Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank ran into a clamor of protest. Jewish groups protested Dickens' "villainous and repulsive" Fagin, as played in the movie by Alec (The Cocktail Party) Guinness in exaggerated make-up modeled on the famed Cruikshank drawings. Was the movie Fagin a public demonstration of antiSemitism? Rank bowed to the outcry, postponed the U.S. opening "indefinitely" (TIME...
...Francisco, Cinemogul Sam Goldwyn predicted that television would cut Hollywood movie production by 70%: "Why should people go out to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television...
With a sharp eye for a competitor's product, Cinemogul Darryl F. Zanuck, back from getting a new movie rolling in Germany, had a prediction: "I would say if the political and military situation remain the same, some of our strongest competition two years from now will come from the German film market...