Word: goetz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Agreement). But the prize had a more personal significance for Producer Irene Selznick : Streetcar was her first Broadway production (her Heartsong was a pre-Broadway flop). This clinched the fact that the daughter of Cinemogul L. B. Mayer who is also sister-in-law of Cinemogul William Goetz and ex-wife of Cinemogul David O. Selznick, had at last made a success in show business that she could call...
...Heiress (adapted from Henry James's Washington Square by Ruth & Augustus Goetz; produced by Fred F. Finklehoffe) turns a well-nigh perfect novel into a very imperfect but highly interesting drama. That is no trifling feat, for the novel is not very dramatic. Mr. & Mrs. Goetz give the story more kick by settling for less art. At their worst, they are not so much collaborating with Henry James as colliding with him; but on the whole they do a good job. Famed Director Jed Harris (Broadway, The Front Page, Our Town) does a better...
Mild, moon-faced William Goetz, president and production stay of Hollywood's young & healthy International Pictures Corp., was rich with property. Time was when Goetz had had to rent lot space, pick up stars, writers and directors on the run, and share his profits with the industry's entrenched distributors. Now fast-failing Universal Pictures, the sixth largest company in town, had dropped 230 acres of lot space and 31 key domestic distribution offices into International's lap. Included in Universal's assets was the first crack at the more than 1,000 theaters owned...
...only answer was to merge with an up & coming producer of A pictures. Results: 1) a new corporation, Universal-International, formed last week with Goetz as president and Hollywood lawyer Leo Spitz as board chairman (U-I will be to Universal what M-G-M is to Loew's); 2) the degeneration of once formidable Universal into a distributing company; 3) a hike of six points in Universal stock...
They will have to work at least as hard as their new boss. But with a $60 million budget and all that property to play with, Bill Goetz will be hard for even his father-in-law, MGM's mighty Louis B. Mayer, to match...