Word: goldwynism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dore Schary, 53, oldtime writer, big-wheel cinemagnate and devout Democrat, has long mingled his art with politics. In 1956, after a slump at the box office and a series of money-losing movies (The Swan, Somebody Up There Likes Me), he was fired as production chief of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, suspected that the firing was due in part to his support of Adlai Stevenson. Schary had stumped for Stevenson in the 1952 and 1956 campaigns, also produced the doctrinaire film, Pursuit of Happiness, for the Democratic National Committee...
Some theater owners still take heart from the rising revenues of big-budget films released late in 1957 (Sayonara, The Bridge on the River Kwai), urge Hollywood to lay off the potboilers and shoot the works on the big movie. Exactly, says Veteran Independent Samuel Goldwyn (Guys and Dolls). Goldwyn believes that within a year Hollywood will be producing only half as many pictures as now, but adds, "They will be better pictures," sees the industry heading for a "healthier condition than it has ever known...
Died. Jesse Louis Lasky, 77. pioneer moviemaker who cranked out (in 1914) Hollywood's first feature-length film (The Squaw Man) in a barn studio; of a heart attack; in Beverly Hills. After his first movie venture (with a brother-in-law, Glove Salesman Samuel Goldfish, now Goldwyn. and a young playwright named Cecil B. DeMille), Lasky joined forces (in 1916) with Adolph Zukor to form the Famous Players-Lasky Corp., which evolved into Paramount Pictures...
Some cinemoguls appeared calm. Much studio space is busier than ever, on lease to TV outfits when it is not being used to make the big, quality films on which moviemakers now concentrate. Production of high-budget films is on the upturn. Tough old Sam Goldwyn said slyly: "If Mr. Silverman will take good care of his theaters and play the best pictures available, keeping in mind how good they are rather than how cheaply he can get them, I am sure that he will not go out of business." Apparently just as sure, in spite of his cries...
...week's end Goldwyn announced that he was "enthusiastic about getting a great cast," said he still wanted to do the film because "this play has more poetry than almost anything I've ever produced, and it shows what great artists there are amongst the colored race...