Word: goldwynism
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...British film market. Recently, it was profoundly shocked to discover that its passion was in danger of becoming one-sided. Well-heeled Britons like Cinemagnate Joseph Arthur Rank (TIME, Dec. 20) have appeared ready & willing to break Hollywood's near monopoly of their home market. Last week, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was not napping; it was spending plenty of cash to expand in Britain...
...Pullman you spoke of me renting to go to Hollywood in 1931 was, in reality, a private car . . . and was rented and paid for by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios...
...movie itself is an utterly blameless attempt to display the faces and figures of a number of models under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is also a vehicle for Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly and the average moviegoer has seen the same thing two or three times before. No particular effort was expended in the writing of the script, and the picture vibrates rapidly between the ancient and the inane...
Corwin forsook his $2,000-a-week Hollywood salary from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer because he felt no "burning compulsion" to write what they offered him. CBS, which never had anyone to compare with him, welcomed him back with open pocketbook. They gave him the Tuesday night spot opposite Bob Hope (the best of the unsold time available), and wished him well...
...Arms (Goldwyn-RKO). Midway of Up In Arms, a couple of soldiers lean on a rail and gaze moonily down on a deckload of Army nurses. The nurses, the 34 most eye-straining creatures Sam Goldwyn could pick for the job, are sprawled about in revealing pastel playsuits. Says one of the soldiers reverently: "Boy! We didn't have anything like that in the last war." Says the other as devoutly: "We don't have anything like it in this war, either...