Word: goldwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...this harsh squawk against the girls who have been hooking customers into box offices for years, the producers themselves for the most part maintained a shocked silence. But week before, Samuel (Quality, not Quantity) Goldwyn. had hit the nail on the head. "It used to be that . . . one picture of a double feature would be bad," he pounded. "Now you got to expect both of them will be terrible. . . The American picture industry . . . better do something, and do it soon...
...private life Lady Peel, Canadian-born widow of a British peer, Actress Lillie is, at 40, the brittle darling of the English-speaking stage for her merciless take-offs of less sophisticated darlings. Her first appearance on the screen, in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayers silent Exit Smiling (1926) sent audiences unsmiling away. Four years later, her Fox talkie, Are You There?, brought no warmer response. The Lillie repertory in Doctor Rhythm contains a few skits theatre audiences have not seen. She still has lingual difficulty ordering two dozen double damask dinner napkins, she still galumphs airily through light opera lampoons...
...incomparable Samuel Goldwyn dug deep into his plush, silken topper and drew out Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy, Adolph Menjou, The Ritz Brothers, Kenny Baker, Andrea Leeds, Helen Jepson, and the great Zorina. He mixed them all together, added a dash of technicolor, and even put his name in the title; and out of it all emerged "The Goldwyn Follies." Wandering in and out of Hollywood sets and hamburg stands, leaping from the insane antics of the Ritz brothers to the majestic beauty of "La Traviata," and combining jazz and the ballet in preposterous fashion, it dwarfs everything previously produced...
...knowing the American Indian through & through McCoy owed his introduction to the entertainment business. Called in as a technical adviser in 1924 for the filming of The Covered Wagon, he so impressed casting directors with his vivid Western personality that he was signed up, eventually starred by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Columbia, Monogram (Beyond the Sierras, The Square Shooter, Code of the Rangers). For three seasons he was a star name in the Ringling circus. On the side he owns and operates a 10,000-acre cattle ranch on the edge of a Wyoming Indian reservation...
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