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Bright Men. Becoming a first-rate talent agent, he guided names like Jean Arthur, Bette Davis and Errol Flynn to stardom. With Jimmy Stewart he started the phenomenon of stars getting a percentage of the profits. He signed 24-year-old Frank Sinatra with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He began yo-yoing Dore Schary, an obscure writer, around Hollywood and eventually installed him as head...
...spite of these feeble attempts, The Young Lovers is a real stinker. The director, Samuel Goldwyn Jr. (wonder how he got the job?) has evidently seen Jules and Jim; every time Peter Fonda and Sharon Hugueny melt into each other's arms, the air fills with a familiar kind of harps-and-strings music. It's supposed to convey the impression of joyful undergraduate love, but it only conveys the impression that the scene is taking place in the Waldorf Cafeteria...
...Negro vote," said Bobby. But there he was, wearing a yamilke (skullcap) for a chat with a rabbi. And there he was at Grossinger's, assuring an audience that his father, in his Hollywood days, was so impressed at how Jewish moviemakers like the Warner brothers and Sam Goldwyn raised their children that "he decided to bring his own up that way." In turn, Keating complained about Bobby's "constant talk about the Jewish vote, the Italian vote, the this-that-or-the-other vote. I don't believe there is such a thing as bloc voting in this state...
...Cahn, 50, kingpin Hollywood lyricist, author of more than a thousand songs (Three Coins in the Fountain, Love and Marriage), who last week picked up his fourth Academy Award for Call Me Irresponsible, sung by Jackie Gleason in Papa's Delicate Condition; by Gloria Delson Cahn, 37, onetime Goldwyn girl; on grounds of mental cruelty (she said he left her alone at parties); after 18 years of marriage, two children; in Los Angeles...
...week after the operation, Wilson and his Boston colleague, Dr. Robert Goldwyn, flew down to look at Luna. They found that Gilbert had done his work well. "The hand is beautifully positioned," said Goldwyn. The blood flow was good, and while the skin appeared blistered there was no sign of the feared rejection process. Says Wilson: "What the whole fate of the hand will be, I don't think either of us can say at the moment. But Dr. Gilbert has made an excellent start...