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...pictures shooting, 60 in the process of editing every week. Their backlog of completed films has mounted to more than 85 pictures. This is a new high for sustained production in Hollywood. Big reason: on Sept. 1, five of the cinema industry's major studios (Warner Bros., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 20th Century-Fox, Paramount, RKO-Radio) will begin distributing their product according to the terms of the Government's Consent Decree, which they signed last October (TIME...
Last week thousands of war-worried U.S. citizens strolled from their neighborhood cinemas with a lighter step. These heartened cinemagoers had seen a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer short subject, More About Nostradamus, now playing in some 200 U.S. cinema houses. According to the fabled Renaissance Prophet Nostradamus, Hitler would be licked and everything was going to come out all right...
Ziegfeld Girl (Metro -Goldwyn-Mayer) is a prodigally star-crammed, $2,000,000 exposition of how the late Florenz Ziegfeld's leggy ladies won their Zs. It is also the final glorification of Lana (The Ramparts We Watch) Turner. Henceforth the eupeptic starlet is scheduled to shroud her most publicized charms in the toga of a dramatic actress...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is Pancho Lopez (Wallace Beery), a rootin'-tootin' Mexican bandit, a dead ringer for Pancho Villa, whom Actor Beery portrayed with the same mops and mows back in 1934. Nothing like Holbrook Blinn's stage Pancho of 21 years ago, whose function was to satirize the average American, is the Beery portrait. The Arizona ranch which Pancho raids is owned by a gruff old character in a wheel chair (Lionel Barrymore). Both dialogue and action are thus resolved into a prolonged contest between the stallion snorts of Actor Beery and the crosspatch snuffles...
...Boys Town (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When Director Norman Taurog made Boys Town (TIME, Sept. 12, 1938) three years ago, he managed to present a commendable picture of the Nebraska home for waifs founded by Father Edward J. Flanagan. Part of its success may have been due to the fact that the founder was the film's technical adviser. Success, as it often does in idea-poor Hollywood, demanded a sequel...