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...Show (by Ruth Goodman and Augustus Goetz; produced by Jed Harris) concerns a middle-aged widower and his daughter (Frank Conroy & Constance Cummings) who run an art gallery. Attractive and sought after, the girl is indifferent to other men because she is pathologically attached to her father. The father tries to cut the cord between them; the girl holds tight...
Independent producers, however high-minded or mercenary their motives, seldom manage much of a splash, whether cerebral or boxoffice. International, founded by 20th Century-Fox's longtime general efficiency expert, William Goetz, and veteran cinelawyer Leo Spitz, onetime president of R.K.O. is an exception. Its first picture is the most propitious independent debut since David O. Selznick...
M.G.M. London Films is run by a team. One member is its chairman and managing director, Hungarian-born Sir Alexander Korda. The other is his deputy, Manhattan-born Ben Goetz. Cigar-smoking, affable, Goetz studied law, gave it up in 1912 for a job with Crystal Film Co. in The Bronx. He was soon studio manager, and director, had a hand in starting Pearl White, later made famous by the palpitating Perils of Pauline. Goetz was one of the founders of Erbograph Co., which merged with Consolidated Film Industries, Inc., in 1924, was executive vice president when he joined M.G.M...
...years the British quota system has forced U.S. movie makers to produce a certain percentage of pictures in England. Goetz cracked the practice of grinding out cheap "quota quickies" (which often lost money), proved that it was cheaper to make pictures good enough for the U.S. market. This worked so well that a year ago last March M.G.M. merged with Korda's London Films, Ltd., mapped out a program of big-budget pictures. Eventually, M.G.M. London under Korda and Goetz will turn out 16 of them yearly -a figure without precedent in England. Last week Ben Goetz...
...confused with the outfits designed by the Navy's Lieuts. Consolazio & Spealman, Caltech's Physicist Goetz...