Word: goldwyn
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paul" was Paul Bern, 42-year-old associate producer at Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer, which in recent years has produced more big successes than any other company. Hollywood knew and admired Bern as the No. 1 assistant of Production Chief Irving Thalberg. "Dearest Dear" was Paul Bern's wife, Jean Harlow, 21-year-old film actress (Hell's Angels, Red Headed Woman), whose marriage to Bern last July was the most surprising, most gala, most romanticized wedding of Hollywood's summer. When the note was found last week near Bern's unclothed body, in the bedroom where...
Died. Paul Bern, 42, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executive, husband of Harlean Carpenter McGrew Bern (Jean Harlow), film actress; by his own hand (shooting); in Hollywood...
...reviewing Blondie of the Follies (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), the Hearst-papers last week blurbed: "Marion [Davies] plays a 'Queen of the Follies,' and it is by no chance that the role is hers, for she knows by heart the thoughts, words and deeds of the regally gilded queens of Broadway. . . . Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has assembled its greatest cast since Grand Hotel*. . . ." This cast: Robert Montgomery; Zasu Pitts, independent comic who does bit work in so many cinemas she seldom learns their plots, cannot remember their titles; James Gleason, who in this one supplies the pathos, dies; Jimmy ("Schnozzle") Durante...
Downstairs (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When John Gilbert found that he had ceased to be a hero, he resolved to turn villain. The brilliance of his strategy is plain in this picture, which he wrote himself, sold for $1. The story is laid in a castle outside Vienna, seen from the perspective of the servants' hall. Gilbert is a new chauffeur with a monkey's flair for mischief. Plausible, playful, roving-eyed, he spreads ruin and rage around...
...Bruce, is called imminent. Says he: "God was a lamb when he gave me Virginia." He enrages the technical sound men by taking everywhere a small noisy dachshund, saying the dog is "in my hair." Observers last week thought Downstairs had brought Gilbert back to the top of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's stable of stars...