Word: goldwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Practically every producer in Hollywood has tried to buy the rights to Bernard Shaw's plays at one time or another. Playwright Shaw's most famed reply to such offers was that which he made to Sam Goldwyn. When the most egregious producer in the world assured him that his work would be treated not as a commercial venture but as art, Shaw answered, "Mr. Goldwyn, you are interested in art and I am interested in money...
...Shining Hour (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Triangle drama, recklessly adapted from Keith Winter's play, about a cabaret dancer (Joan Crawford) who marries an aristocrat (Melvyn Douglas) and falls in love with his brother (Robert Young...
...once shrewd and naive, lusty and bookish, youthful and pompous, the Odets personality of those days became a legend. Samples of it were "collected"' like Dorothy Parker's witticisms and Samuel Goldwyn's boners. Example: playing Mozart on the gramophone for a friend. Odets remarked: "Mozart was a young genius, too." Odets no longer has the same interest in gadding about, hooking up with celebrities, asserting his importance. Today most of his close friends are members of the Group. Most of his spare time is spent at home-playing the gramophone. His love for music is ebullient...
...Castings: Don Ameche as Alexander Graham Bell (Twentieth Century-Fox); Bette Davis as Queen Elizabeth in Elizabeth the Queen, as Henriette in All this, and Heaven too, and as the nun in The Miracle (Warner Brothers); 90 midgets in The Wizard of Oz (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
Spring Madness (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Mildly amusing little collegiate comedy headlined by Lew Ayres and Maureen O'Sullivan and notable chiefly for the way in which Actor Burgess Meredith, hailed three years ago as the Hamlet of 1940. belies his reputation by bringing to his impersonation of a Harvard senior the same mannerisms he used when spouting very blank verse in Winterset...