Word: goldwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...success with last season's Room Service, which he sold to RKO Radio for $255,000. Room Service was a washed-up play property when unknown Playwrights John Murray & Allen Boretz brought it to Abbott. Sam Harris had tried it out in Philadelphia two years earlier with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer money. It was a $23,000 flop; When the Harris option lapsed, Abbott looked at the script, felt warmly toward it because it was about Broadway, suggested a few changes. The authors condensed three scenes into one, picked a tag for it out of the second act, Abbott sent...
Cantor joined Twentieth Century-Fox in September 1936 under a three-picture arrangement for a reputed $1,000,000, after having spent the previous seven years with Samuel Goldwyn and United Artists. He bought his release from the Goldwyn contract when Goldwyn failed to buy Three Men on a Horse for him. AH Baba Goes to Town is his first film under the Twentieth Century-Fox agreement...
Double Wedding (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Early in the proceedings Charlie Lodge (William Powell) analyzes himself for the benefit of audience and Margit Agnew (Myrna Loy): "I'll be quite frank with you. I suppose I'm what you'd call a cad." Besides a cad, one learns that he is an ex-Foreign Legionnaire, an ex-Paris tourist guide, an ex-husband, a part-time painter, a would-be cinema director. He lives in a trailer on a vacant lot next to a buffet known as Spike's Place. Spike (Edgar Kennedy) calls...
Staunch supporters of the University will find their faith more than repaid this week; the program for Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday is none other than "Lost Horizon." Not content with that alone, the management packs Thursday, Friday, and Saturday with the magnificent Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer production "The Good Earth...
...never been able to compact an idea into three acts"). Last July he referred to Hollywood fame as "a load of clams" at which "a dreaming of his dithyrambs, our gallant Thespis thumbs his nose," few days later signed to write for Cinemogul Samuel Goldwyn at $260,000 annually, Hollywood's highest writing stipend. Soon thereafter he went on leave to try compacting two more ideas into three acts each. In the tortured and tortuous mental life of his hero Sterns in To Quito and Back, friends of Playwright Hecht thought they saw more than a trace of autobiography...