Word: filmdom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born. To Lynn Redgrave, 25, comic half (Georgy Girl) of filmdom's sister act (Vanessa's credits include Blow-Up, Camelot), and John Clark, 35, British-born actor (MacBird); their first child, a boy; in London...
Died. Fay Bainter, 74, one of Hollywood's best-remembered character actresses; after a long illness; in Los Angeles. For more than 25 years she played aunt, mother and grandmother to most of filmdom's top stars, won an Oscar as best supporting actress in 1938 for Jezebel, was nominated for three others, appeared in 35 movies all told and in such Broadway hits as 1930's Lysistrata (252 performances) and 1934's Dodsworth (147 performances...
Thus did Maverick Levin and Incumbent O'Brien bring their hotly contested struggle for the control of MGM to a face-to-face showdown. During the months that it has raged, the battle has touched off at least six court suits, embroiled filmdom's leading producers, actors and exhibitors, and brought on a barrage of proxy-seeking entreaties that cost the two sides well over $500,000 between them. After the company's raucous four-hour annual meeting ended, the slow process of tallying up the votes of its shareowners finally got under way. The results...
...comedy with residual plot development or a semblance of character, a few such antics might be funny. Ears mistakes physical exercise for humor, and before one-third of the marathon unreels it has exhausted everyone except its agile leading man, who is still one of filmdom's sprightliest actors. But not sprightly enough, perhaps, to carry off a role that requires him almost simultaneously to be like Harold Lloyd on a high wire, Buster Keaton pratfalling in a Chinese opera, and Humphrey Bogart doing a striptease in drag...
...Hollywood community is very much against it," announced U.N.C.L.E. Star Robert Vaughn on an unsecret mission to Washington last week. As filmdom's new spokesman, Vaughn opts for direct negotiations with the Viet Cong, reports that he is getting almost as many speech invitations as fan letters these days. He explained that he became worried about Viet Nam several months ago, and made an intensive study of all the documents, books and articles he could find on the subject. "I can talk for six hours about the mistakes we have made," he says. "We have absolutely no reason...