Word: goldwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Sued for Separation. Arthur Marcus Loew, 38, vice president and general manager of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, one-time son-in-law of Adolph Zukor; by Barbara Mae Smith Loew, 25. onetime showgirl; in White Plains, N. Y. Charges: He treated her like a child, humiliated her before servants, called her a killjoy, drank excessively, abandoned her at parties, allowed women to put makeup on his face, pinched her dog, harassed her canary. Mrs. Loew asked $3,000 per month maintenance, $25,000 for counsel fees, $2.500 for special costs. Mr. Loew: "Preposterous...
...York, Al Lichtman, onetime president of United Artists, joined Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as special sales adviser. President of United Artists last week was still Mary Pickford, who moved in when Al Lichtman moved...
Barbary Coast (Samuel Goldwyn) is a gaslight and "hoss''-pistol melodrama of San Francisco in the gold-rush days, written by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur, directed by Howard Hawks, acted by Edward G. Robinson, Miriam Hopkins and Joel McCrea. That it somehow fails to justify expectations is due largely to the fact that the story, about an underworld tsar who constitutes himself protector of a lady croupier in his gambling house and then shows that his heart is in the right place by giving her up when she falls in love with a mealy-mouthed young prospector...
Lichtman. The ups-and-downs of United Artists this year started in June when Darryl Zanuck's Twentieth Century Pictures left the lot to merge with Fox, taking United Artists' President Joe Schenck with it. To replace Schenck, United Artists partners-Pickford, Fairbanks, Chaplin, Sam Goldwyn-chose Al Lichtman, for eight years the sales manager who was generally considered responsible for United Artists' brilliantly run distribution. With Lichtman as president. United Artists speedily refilled its producing plant with the Selznick company, a new Mary Pickford-Jesse Lasky partnership and Alexander Korda's London Films, whose pictures...
Last week President Lichtman resigned because of ''a difference in views with one of the producers." The producer, every-one knew, was Sam Goldwyn and the difference in views concerned distribution of Barbary Coast (see p. 45). with which Producer Goldwyn was dissatisfied. On the day of the announcement of Selznick International Pictures, United Artists' directors unanimously accepted Lichtman's resignation, unanimously denied that any of United Artists' producers would follow that supersalesman...