Word: goldwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...exposed, on Hollywood shelves when the assessors make their annual visits on March's first Monday, the studios are taxed. The way to beat the tax is to empty the shelves. When the assessors made their rounds this week, most cupboards were bare. But at luckless Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the vast amount of film necessary for Norma Shearer's Marie Antoinette was still in stock, the picture only half completed...
Gullible Radio Gossiper Robert Garrett was last week barred from all Hollywood studios, then fired. His indefensible offense: broadcasting over Los Angeles radio station KEHE that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer officials had propped up dead Actor Robert McWade (TIME, Jan. 31), photographed the back of his head to complete a scene in Of Human Hearts. To backers of New York's proposed Berg Bill, designed to bring radio slander under the libel laws, Hollywood's resounding reproof of Gossiper Garrett brought great satisfaction; to harebrained radio gossipers, pause...
Blaring a welcome period to the weary era of super-colossal musical films, "The Goldwyn Folliers" turns out to be one of those movies which is significant not only for what "couth" Samuel Goldwin has put into the show which bears his name, but also for what he leaves out--namely, a plot. Rows of chorus girls, silvery glitter, and shiny floors are here replaced by the ballet and the opera, both excellently handled. Added to this are Charlie McCarthy, making his full-length movie debut, and the whacky Ritz Brothers, who, as usual, hold their own on the comedy...
...complications concern a movie producer's (Adolph Menjou's) search for a plot with the human touch, which was possibly just what Mr. Goldwyn himself was seeking. Andrea Leeds, the dark horse who almost stole the show in "Stage Door," maintains her standard as "Miss Humanity." The technicolor is not glaring and therefore impressive. Undoubtedly the high spots of the movie are the ballet scenes, which are worth seeing even after the Chicago fire, the hurricane, and the locusts. And the title need arouse no apprehension...
...Spanish Civil War, 2 the career of a Key West, Florida, character named Harry Morgan, 3 the Italian retreat from Caporetto, 4 the rise of the Communist party in this country under Earl Browder, 5 a fictional Hollywood character whose career closely resembles that of Sam Goldwyn...