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...Love You Again (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) proceeds on the sound assumption that a conk on the head can gravely affect a man's deportment. Conkee is prim & proper Larry Wilson (William Powell), who thus gets over an eight-year-old case of amnesia, reverts to his former character of con man cum laude. He still pretends to be Larry Wilson for the sake of bilking his small-town cronies. His wife (Myrna Loy) walks through these comic revels as cool as a julep, never quite understanding the sudden transformation of the husband she was about to divorce. The reappearance...
Scheduled for a tour of U. S. museums, Producer Wanger's experiment in cultural publicity had by last week got so much attention for The Long Voyage Home that he counted his $50,000 well spent. Meanwhile another Hollywood studio, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was nosing around picture galleries, wondering whether it shouldn't commission some paintings too. Said Producer Wanger, gravely posing for the press photographers: "It's all for the sake...
Boom Town (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the muddy hamlet of Burkburnett, Tex., and things start happening there when Big John MacMasters (Clark Gable) and his friend Square John Sand (Spencer Tracy) bring in a gusher with stolen equipment. Then Square John's girl (Claudette Colbert) comes West and Big John appropriates her. For 20 years Square John and Big John go on mooning over Claudette, bringing in gushers, getting rich and going broke like two big kids on a seesaw. When Big John begins to neglect Claudette for a saucy little baggage named Karen Vanmeer (Hedy Lamarr), Square John...
...never shifted the gears beyond second. Son of an architect, graduate of Budapest's Royal Academy of Theatre and Art, a famed European director when the Warners tapped him to replace Ernst Lubitsch, Michael Curtiz (né Kertez) is the butt of more Hollywood stories than Sam Goldwyn. The only one Michael Curtiz bothers to deny is that he once worked as a circus strong...
Since Jimmy left his $30,000-a-year berth as vice president of Samuel Goldwyn. Inc. (which has suspended production pending the outcome of a legal fight between Movieman Goldwyn and his United Artists co-stockholders), he has also been working on a scheme to make shorts to be exhibited in vending machines (TIME, March 4). Meantime he has moved from his Beverly Hills house-awf-swimming pool to a modest apartment on the other and wrong side of town, now keeps no servants, drives his own car. Says Jimmy: "Joe Kennedy* once told me, 'There are only...