Word: goldwynism
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...Include me out") Goldwyn is given the credit. It has worked out so well that actors and producers, all trying bravely to look like frustrated artists, have formed more than 100 independent companies. Newest comers: Burgess Meredith and his wife, Paulette Goddard, who have incorporated (with Benedict Bogeaus) as Camden Productions to make Diary of a Chambermaid...
...Metzger Howard, 45, wife of a British-born mining engineer. Her novel Before the Sun Goes Down, a story of a Pennsylvania town in the 1880s, will be published early next year-as the winner of both the $20,000 Doubleday, Doran Novel Contest and the $125,000 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Annual Novel Award. The $145,000 is not the end of Mrs. Howard's windfall. M.G.M. will pay her up to $50,000 more if her book becomes a best-seller -and may offer her a writing contract to boot...
...Monday luncheon at plush Perino's, the Association of Motion Picture Producers sent in the first team-M.G.M.'s Louis B. Mayer, Goldwyn's Sam Goldwyn, Paramount's Henry Ginsberg, RKO's Charles Koerner, Universal's Nate Blumberg, Columbia's Irving Briskin, Fox's Lew Schrieber and Joe Schenck, everybody's Will Hays. Rank talked easily, but not about his plans. He liked the fried chicken...
Next day, the Society of Independent Motion Picture Producers, spearheaded by militantly independent David 0. Selznick. took Yorkshireman Rank back to Perino's for more chicken. Nothing came of it. That night Sam Goldwyn entertained at a dinner featuring Myrna Loy, Gary Grant and Joan Bennett. They found Mr. Rank charming...
...Hollywood itself, Comedian Fatty Arbuckle was being tried for the death of an actress following a pajamaed "orgy." There, too, a small group of men who knew less about show business than fur dealing (Marcus Loew), jewelry merchandizing (Lewis J. Selznick), glove selling (Samuel Goldwyn), cloth sponging (William Fox), railroad engineering (Sam Warner), were struggling among hundreds of others "from Saturday night to Saturday night" in an atmosphere of "ruthless conflict, chicane, daring, and genius...