Word: goldwynism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months, Frank Sinatra has managed to irritate a crowd of 10,000 in Australia, sue a well-known producer for breach of contract and make it widely known that he "would rather punch him in the face," display scorn in public for Marlon Brando, alienate the affections of Sam Goldwyn, mount a wide-open attack on another entertainer in a prominent newspaper ad ("Ed Sullivan, You're sick . . . P.S. Sick! Sick! Sick...
Radio-TVman O'Neil also got what was once one of Hollywood's busiest studios and is now one of its sickest. Millionaire Hughes had chopped the studio's 2,000-man payroll to 300, lost his distribution contracts for Walt Disney and Sam Goldwyn films, made fewer pictures (not a foot of RKO film has been shot this year). He haggled steadily for six days and nights with O'Neil over the sale...
...Rome, a civil court ruled that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had sometimes made Italy's great Tenor Enrico Caruso appear far less than great in the movie The Great Caruso. Awarded to Caruso's heirs, for MGM's reflections upon the family's honor: $8,300 damages...
...Scratch. Goldwyn has never pinched his moviemaking pennies in his zeal for what he calls "quality." Guys and Dolls, with Marlon Brando, Frank Sinatra, Jean Simmons, Vivian Elaine and 16 Goldwyn Girls, is budgeted at $5,500,000. Goldwyn paid $1,000,000 merely for the screen rights to the Broadway musical and that, as a Goldwyn hireling put it in Runyonese, "is a lot of scratch." It is probably the highest price ever paid for a single film property...
Like DeMille, Goldwyn is enthusiastically spreading out in his movie as if he were an ambitious youngster with new Hollywood fields to conquer. A foxy lone wolf-no partners, no board of directors, no bank financing-Goldwyn probably knows as much about Hollywood and its half century of history as any man alive. But another Goldwynism covers the situation. "I'm never going to write my autobiography," he says, "as long as I live...