Word: goldwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...organized two years ago when Zanuck squabbled with Warner Brothers, where he had worked up from comedy script writer to production chief. He persuaded United Artists' President Schenck to back his new company, release its productions. The split between Twentieth Century and United Artists started when Sam Goldwyn, who had been United Artists' No. 1 producer, decided that the new company was getting more than its share of attention. On the Fox lot, where Producer Schenck's good friend Winfield Sheehan is production chief but where Jesse L. Lasky and others have been making independent pictures...
...were frantically trying to deal with the situation caused by Twentieth Century's departure. A loosely organized group of producers, set up 16 years ago by actors who felt that they were being exploited by their employers, the company's only active producing members now are Sam Goldwyn, Charlie Chaplin, whose new, unnamed "Production No. 5" will be released in August, and Mary Pickford, who plans six pictures next year. In Hollywood last week, Producers Goldwyn, Pickford and Chaplin held all-day meetings, lunched for five hours, arguing about whom to elect president to replace Producer Schenck, where...
...Flame Within (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). For attention from the current cinema, Department of Justice agents' only rivals on the distaff side are female psychiatrists. Like Dr. Everest (Claudette Colbert) in Private Worlds, Mary White (Ann Harding) in this picture is baffled when her own life presents the sort of symptoms she is accustomed to deal with in her patients. Having healed the suicide fits of an heiress (Maureen O'Sullivan) by treating her sweetheart (Louis Hayward) for advanced dipsomania, she finds her maternal instincts for the latter in a state of overstimulation. Her confrère (Herbert Marshall...
Princess Catherine, pretty young daughter of the late King Constantine of Greece, turned up "incognito" in Hollywood, wanted to visit studios. Sigvard Bernadotte, grandson of Sweden's King Gustaf V, who was disowned for marrying a commoner and now works as a cameraman for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, took her to see 300 pies and 200 cream puffs thrown at a cinemactor. Gasped Greece's Catherine to Sweden's Sigvard: "My goodness, how I envy you! I wish I had a job here...
...Indiscretion (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) investigates the marital mishaps of the Lenhart family, Robert (Paul Lukas), Eve (Helen Vinson) and small Bill (David Jack Holt). Eve runs off with a worthless scion. Robert becomes attached to his devoted secretary (Madge Evans). Small Bill, almost handed over to his unscrupulous mother by a deluded judge, eventually stays with his father. Pleasantly played and decorated with MGM's best office, home and country house effects, all this manages to seem a little less banal than it sounds...