Word: goldwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Escapade (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the result of superimposing upon the pattern of Viennese waltz-time romance the kind of highly contemporary comedy of which William Powell is currently Hollywood's ablest exponent. That the result is mildly entertaining is thanks partly to Powell, partly to Director Robert Z. Leonard, but mostly to a totally unknown cinemactress named Luise Rainer. Miss Rainer is Leopoldine Major, private companion to an aging Viennese duchess. She is peremptorily whisked out of the obscurity of her position when a dashing young artist (Powell), compelled for reasons of gallantry to conceal the name...
...became a thriving agent whose firm now handles more actors, writers and directors than any other in Hollywood. His younger brother David Oliver Selznick worked up to be Producer Ben Schulberg's assistant at Paramount, left Paramount to be production chief at RKO, married a daughter of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Louis B. Mayer, left RKO in 1932 to become an independent producer at MGM. In the last year, David Selznick has been itching to leave M-G-M to form a company of his own. Last month, when Twentieth Century Pictures quit United Artists to merge with...
Belcher Sirs: TIME publishes the most trustworthy of movie guides, but why don't you do about Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's belching lion? W. D. HUMPHREY Sherbrooke, Quebec
...More Ladies (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) shows Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery and Franchot Tone, a variety of white chromium modernistic interiors, a welter of cynical badinage over cocktails and cigarets, the complications of rich idle adultery. It is a pleasant, witty time-waster...
Public Hero No. 1 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). There is not much variation possible in the formula demanded by the current cycle of G-Men pictures. In this one, Scenarist Wells Root did about all he could by making the heroine (Jean Arthur) the sister of a crook rather than of a Federal detective, and by letting the audience mistake the G-Man hero for a criminal until his visit to his superior reveals that the jail break he engineered was really a trick to gain the confidence of the leader (Joseph Calleia) of the Purple Gang, who escaped...