Word: goldwynism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hottest personalities in Hollywood last week were neither blonde and seductive, nor tall, dark and handsome. They were a couple of shrewd, bouncy septuagenarians with white fringes around their bald heads. Producer Samuel Goldwyn, 73, was hard at work on the Runyonesque musicomedy Guys and Dolls. Cecil Blount DeMille, also 73, was producing and directing a supercolossal remake of his first (1923) The Ten Commandments. These two movies, bossed by two old experts, were the most expensive and most talked about in town, and both were a long-way from The Squaw Man, Hollywood's first feature length film...
...Wherever he goes he is accompanied by a glistening motorcade of Lincolns and Mercurys. In Houston, Sullivan agreed to preside at the opening of the new $9,000,000 Prudential Insurance building, but first arranged for a display of his sponsor's cars in the lobby. When Sam Goldwyn, Oscar Hammerstein II, Josh Logan or Walt Disney are guests on Toast of the Town, Sullivan sees to it that their wives get gift Lincolns. ("That gets a lot of caste-conscious people buying Lincolns...
...Last Time I Saw Paris is so phoney it hurts. In its return to the Continent from campaigns on the Italian peninsula Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has settled on a rework of the stock script about war-weary American youth in Europe. Ostensibly patterned after a Scott Fitzgerald novel, it somehow misplaces World War I and ends up occurring in 1945. Otherwise, it is Hollywood's latest testimonial to its own mixed up conception of gay, reckless Paris...
...seized my sketchbook, and raced off to the Hasty Pudding, where they had the red carpet rolled all the way up to the Hayes-Bickford trash cans. Presently a thirty-foot Harvard limousine with flying bridge and machine guns drew unobtrusively to the curb, and a crowd of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer publicity agents piled out and began shaking hands...
...Treasure) Co. plans to release its $350,000 Seven Samurai, which won a prize at this year's Venice Festival, early in 1955 as "a Japanese western" (33,000 extras, 2,300 horses). Next month Daiei (Great Pictures), which produced both Rashomon and Ugetsu, will release (through Sam Goldwyn) its latest sword swinger: Jigokumon (Hell's Gate), which won the Grand Prix at Cannes this year and stars Machiko Kyo, the leading lady of Rashomon and Ugetsu, and Japan's favorite male actor, Kazuo Hasegawa...