Word: goldwynism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...performance of his distant cousin, a politically conscious Hollywood owl. The owl, Dr. Owsley Hoot, brainchild of a onetime Disney employee named John Sutherland, is the chief character in Fresh Laid Plans, a nine-minute animated cartoon independently produced by Sutherland and distributed throughout the nation by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
Died. Alva Johnston, 62, oldtime reporter (The New York Times and Herald Tribune), one of the best magazine writers (The New Yorker, Saturday Evening Post), contemporary biographer (The Great Goldwyn; The Case of Erie Stanley Gardner), 1922 Pulitzer Prizewinner (for popularizing the esoteric proceedings of the American Association for the Advancement of Science); of a cerebral thrombosis; in Bronxville...
...Francisco, Cinemogul Sam Goldwyn predicted that television would cut Hollywood movie production by 70%: "Why should people go out to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television...
Married. Samuel Goldwyn Jr., 23; and Jennifer Howard, 24, daughter of the late playwright Sidney Coe Howard (They Knew What They Wanted); he for the first time, she for the second; in Berkeley, Calif...
Edge of Doom (Samuel Goldwyn; RKO Radio) sets out to dramatize Catholic Author Leo Brady's prizewinning novel about a twisted youth who kills a priest. The book was largely an introspective study of the killer's complex motives and his painful redemption. On the screen, the story becomes a second-rate melodrama with a wispy religious motif...