Word: goldwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Girl from Missouri (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). At the outset of this picture, Eadie (Jean Harlow) announces her ambition to stay pure and marry a millionaire. That she finally gets to the altar in that condition can be chalked up as a victory for Censor Joseph Breen, despite the fact that Eadie's character is such as to make ridiculous anything she thinks worth defending...
Madge Evans now has a long-term contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. An expert badminton player, she owns the largest collection of pajamas in Hollywood, prefers to sleep in a nightgown. Unmarried, she lives in a ten-room Spanish house with her mother and brother, likes practical jokes, plays golf constantly and poorly, is often seen with Tom Gallery, matchmaker for Hollywood's Legion Stadium. Healthy, talkative, blue-eyed, she studies in bed, considers The Little Duchess (1917) her best picture...
Noel Coward once told Mrs. Ethel Harriman Russell, daughter of Washington's famed Mrs. J. Borden ("Daisy") Harriman: "You're no actress; you're a monologist. Why don't you write a play?" Last week, after a trial period, Mrs. Russell signed a regular contract as scenarist with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, planned to take her two children to Hollywood...
...made her first appearance on the Manhattan stage. That she has not appeared in cinema before is partly due to the fact that in 1929 she was selected to play the young daughter in Street Scene. After 800 performances in Manhattan and London, she met Sam Goldwyn to discuss playing in the cinema version. They became so interested in how the picture should be made that they forgot to sign a contract. In the cinema Street Scene, Sylvia Sidney got the Moore part...
Stamboul Quest (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) goes one step beyond the usual spy story, deals with counter-espionage in Wartime Constantinople. A German spy, Annemarie (Myrna Loy), is set to catch the Turkish Commander of the Dardanelles, who is suspected of selling secrets to the British. With the aid of a large straw hat, and a plan as devious as her Oriental quarry, she succeeds. When she is falsely told that her scheme caused the death of her lover, she becomes mentally deranged, stays cooped up in a nunnery until he returns...