Word: goldwynism
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...church. The President broke the silence, made his announcement on neutrality. The questions asked him were terse and sober; his replies were concise. Not a word did Franklin Roosevelt say to Fred Storm, one of his favorite correspondents, about his leaving U. P. to work for Sam Goldwyn and Jimmy Roosevelt in Hollywood. When the conference was over the newspapermen filed out as quietly as they had entered, and everybody knew that, for a time at least, a new atmosphere existed between the President and the Press...
...last fortnight Bob Riskin, weary of the constant harangues that working for Mr. Goldwyn entails, threw up his contract, this week sailed for Europe. Last week Frank Capra, completing Mr. Smith Goes to Washington under his Columbia contract, announced that, instead of signing another, he would rejoin Riskin in the fall as Frank Capra Productions, Inc. Since high-powered Screenwriters Gene Towne and Graham Baker have also set up shop for themselves this year (TIME, May 29), Hollywood saw a Trend. Though the Capra-Riskin production plans remained their secret, neither they nor anyone else thought they would have much...
...office successes, Lady For a Day, Broadway Bill, It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, Lost Horizon, You Can't Take It With You. They won their share of Oscars and some of the biggest money in the business. Last year they parted when Samuel Goldwyn offered Riskin a five-year contract (reportedly worth $1,000,000) as an associate producer. Hollywood guessed that Capra, whose $350,000-a-year contract with Columbia had another year to run, was also on Producer Goldwyn's list...
...Borrowed Time (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), borrowed from the 1938 Broadway hit, is a rose-colored peek at the bourn Hollywood visited in Death Takes a Holiday. As gently as a mortician, but allowing itself an occasional smile, it presents Death as a softspoken, courteous gentleman ("Mr. Brink") equipped with an impeccable British accent. Its story is what might happen if an old man, tenacious of life, could get this urbane Grim Reaper trapped up an apple tree...
...When the Hays Office at first thumbs-downed the picture's title, Producer D. Sylva and Director Kanin, an old Samuel Goldwyn man, offered the company a $200 prize for the best substitute. The contest was abandoned when Actor Frank Albertson solemnly submitted as his entry "Du Sylva Threads Among the Goldwyn...