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Behind the cameras were almost all the directors whose work is so avidly studied in the film schools, a group that included John Ford, George Cukor, George Stevens, Cecil B. DeMille, Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh, William Wyler, Busby Berkeley, Henry King, Ernst Lubitsch and Victor Fleming. Behind them were the producers, who were far more important then than they are now, men such as David O. Selznick, Sam Goldwyn, Darryl F. Zanuck, Pandro S. Berman, Hal Wallis and Arthur Hornblow...
...Broadway, sneered at Hollywood's output. But, then, why shouldn't they have? The studio bosses, after all, liked to brag that they were just businessmen whose job it was to turn out movies -- no one in those days called them films -- the way General Electric did refrigerators and Ford did cars. The stories of their often comical obtuseness have since filled several hundred memoirs. "Who wants to see some dame go blind and die?" asked Jack Warner when Davis said she wanted to make Dark Victory. But he reluctantly gave in, and the story of the dame who goes...
Cheney, 48, is a sixth-term conservative congressman from Wyoming who served as White House chief of staff in the Ford Administration in the mid-1970s...
...Ford Professor of Business Administration Michael C. Jensen says that he came to recognize the merits of case teaching--even before coming to Harvard-when he taught at the University of Rochester's lecture-oriented Simon School of Management...
...stars. Among the familiar faces: Wilford Brimley for Quaker Oats, Art Carney for Coca-Cola Classic, Barbara Billingsley and Jane Wyatt for Milk of Magnesia and Buddy Ebsen for McDonald's. Special modeling agencies have sprung up to meet the growing demand for mature actors for commercials. At the Ford agency, a division called Classic Woman offers a group of 30 models over age 40. Senior Class, a New York City agency started last year, books 200 men and women 50 to 80. Among them are a retired fireman, a judge and even a onetime IRS agent...