Word: goldwyn
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attention without having stopped enjoying it. Director Bretherton arranged the story very smoothly. Betty Compson, and an unknown, dark-haired young man named Grant Withers play opposite each other. Assorted sound-shots: a crowd at a football game, a college dance where everyone sings, a stock ticker. Thunder (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Lined and grey, smeared with oil, misty with sentiment under its visored cap, the face at the window of the enginecab is Lon Chaney's. Coincidence turns the wheels. The engineer has two sons. One of them is killed. Lon Chaney, driving the train carrying the body...
...report that members of the Comédie Française were to make talking cinemas for U. S. producers. French cinema exhibitors worried more over the news that all representatives of U. S. producer-members (Paramount-Famous-Lasky, Warner Bros., Fox, United Artists, Universal, Radio-Keith-Orpheum, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) of the Cinema Syndicate de France were resigning in protest over the new French law, effective in September, limiting the importation of foreign-produced films to four for each French film exported...
Florenz ("Follies") Ziegfeld Jr. let it be known last week that he and Cinemagnate Samuel Goldwyn had formed the Ziegfeld-Goldwyn Corp., which would start next January to produce "talkies" with the Ziegfeld tang and glamor, the Goldwyn experience. Said Mr. Ziegfeld: "I am going to do for the screen what I have done for the stage." Of the stage he said: "There is too much dirt and nakedness in revues nowadays, and the public is about fed up on them. . . . The sketches now used as black-outs? are the sort that in pre-Prohibition days found their origin...
...Algonquin Mrs. Crawford-Fairbanks wrote: "Dear Mother: It is but an hour since. . . ." Said Cinemactor Fairbanks; "Our affair was a sweet and romantic one." Too busy, they said, to honeymoon, they returned soon after the wedding to Hollywood to resume work, he with First National Pictures, she with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Neither has been married before...
...Bridge of San Luis Rey (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The job of making the artificially connected episodes of Thornton Wilder's fantasy into visual drama has been done well?so well that this picture, unlike most of those based on successful books, will appeal chiefly to people who have read the story. The brightly colored insubstantial characters?the disordered old Marquesa, tormented with love for a daughter who does not like her; the novice (Raquel Torres) who could no longer see Christ clear because she loved Estaban, the letter writer; Estaban, who found the world empty when his brother Manuel died...