Word: goldwynism
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...little man, now the indomitable sea dog, Captain Mitty, now the great surgeon, and overshoes, but even in the moment of defeat and annihilation "the inscrutable Walter Mitty"-- he may remain for us the symbol of our age, with his two-for-a-cent dream life manufactured by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and his real life a complex of frustration. There is space only to mention Irwin Shaw's three stories, Christopher Isherwood's extraordinary "I Am Waiting" and Mark Schorer's un-Jamesian "Portrait of Ladies...
Used to their comparative anonymity, cameramen lead the most normal lives of Hollywood's high-salaried citizens, rarely appear in the gossip columns or at Goldwyn, Mayer or Zanuck parties. They own houses, raise families. Professionally, they are tied in a union as exclusive as a London club, the American Society of Cinematographers, which, until its recent application for an A. F. of L. charter, had no truck with national affiliations. It costs $100 to join, holds a closed-shop contract with all major studios...
...daring, imaginative style has earned him a reputation as the Artist of the cameramen, even though he is somewhat shorter on technical skill than his top-notch competitors. After 20 years at the job, Toland, now 36, earns $62,000 a year from his contract with Samuel Goldwyn, lives a quiet, unsocial Hollywood life in spite of his upper-bracket salary...
...frontier. The location is Texas, the center of action Judge Roy Bean's "court," a decrepit saloon in which justice flows as freely as the "rub of the brush." The time is the 1860's, and the homesteaders and cattleraisers are busily warring for Lebensraum, giving Sam Goldwyn the chance of his life to shoot some gruesome pictures of burning homes and fields...
Escape (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Hollywood maintains a constant vigil these days for anti-fascist material with lots of bing-bang action. The appearance of pseudonymous Ethel Vance's novel Escape last year set off a scramble for its cinema rights which ended with an M. G. M. victory costing $50,000. It was worth...