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...Gold (United Artists). When Sam Goldwyn hired the President's oldest son two years ago, Hollywood sat back with a small smile and twiddled its thumbs. Next thing Hollywood knew, Jimmy was on his own. With a franchise to distribute pictures through United Artists, he had formed his own company, Globe Productions, Inc. Jimmy's first regular film release was Pastor Hall, an English-made film of the trials of a Nazi-baited German cleric. His second was to be his own product, Pot o' Gold. Three weeks ago Captain James Roosevelt drew a brief furlough from...
Rage in Heaven (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Taken from an eight-year-old novel by James Hilton, the film puts Robert Montgomery back in his English squire's tweeds as the respectable owner of a humming steel mill. Soon married to his mother's charming young companion (Ingrid Bergman), he begins to exhibit slight traces of eccentricity- an inordinate jealousy of his best friend (George Sanders), a shivering horror of the moon, a tormenting fear complex. But it is never brash. As he hesitatingly proposes to Miss Bergman in the warm evening under the oaks of his estate...
...what a jam session really is. The popular conception, of course, has come out of Hollywood, the birthplace of so many other cultural miscarriages. Therefore, you too, will know where to lay the blame if you think a jam session is something bordering on a Bacchanalian orgy, complete with Goldwyn girls, Martha Raye and her face, and Artie Shaw tooting on his instrument. That's all very well and good, but it's far from the right idea...
...Trial of Mary Dugan (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a re-make and a prissy fumigation of Bayard Veiller's famed courtroom drama which in 1929 became Norma Shearer's first all-talking picture. Mary Dugan this time is pretty young Laraine Day (of the Doctor Kildare series), whom M. G. M. is building toward the Big Time. And Mary Dugan this time isn't a girl who has become a kept woman to help her brother get educated. She is a virgin stenographer. Many other changes have been made to produce the morality play-which badly drags...
Fortnight ago in Hollywood the case was finally settled out of court. Released from his contract was Producer Goldwyn. United Artists arranged to buy in his stock for a rumored $300,000. Last week United Artists' executive chief, Murray Silverstone, was looking about for another partner to replace Goldwyn, had his eye on independent Producer David Oliver (Gone With the Wind) Selznick...