Word: goldwynism
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...Broadway again. The new wrinkle this time was the kids in pictures who, when they are not acting, go to school on the lot. Headliner among them is an itsy-bitchy angel face (Betty Philson) who starts the ball rolling by having her teacher fired. Thereafter, the dear old Goldwyn-rule days give way to the usual mad, noisy, illiterate, shyster antics of the movie industry. Maddest, noisiest, worst illiterate, biggest shyster is a movie magnate (Robert H. Harris) who looks as sinister as a Kewpie doll, acts as honorably as a double-crossing spy, throws telephones across the stage...
...matter who or what was to blame, the man who was last week taking the rap was the Hollywood craftsman. At unwieldy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, which has been at sixes & sevens since the death year-and-a-half ago of its one indisputable producer-genius, Irving G. Thalberg, more than 1,000 of the 3,000 studio employes had been dropped from the payroll. At RKO Radio the pruning halted at 250. In the United Artists group, only Producer Walter Wanger was working at top speed. Samuel Goldwyn was temporarily inactive, his corps of laborers laid off; Selznick International, geared...
...Girl of the Golden West (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) plasters opulent prettiness, vociferous songs and an assortment of plot cliches all over David Belasco's ancient yarn about the mad, bad days in early California. Walter Pidgeon, sheriff of Cloudy Mountain, and Bandit Chief Nelson Eddy are rivals for Jeanette MacDonald, pastel-tinted proprietress of the Polka Saloon. Eddy's dimples, wavy hair and roly-poly pinkness satisfy the popular idea of a rakehell bad man about as well as they did that of a West Point football player in Rosalie. Miss MacDonald's concession to her role...
...years ago, Hollywood's Samuel Goldwyn imported pretty Sigrid Gurie from Norway, secluded her in a Hollywood Hills bungalow till she learned English, then put her in The Adventures of Marco Polo. Last week, Miss Gurie and her husband, a small businessman named Thomas Stewart, were in the Los Angeles divorce court, and a few perfunctory questions brought out that she was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. Said Mr. Goldwyn: "The greatest hoax in box-office history ... I am a very happy victim...
Merrily We Live (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) spins a yarn as merry as it is unimportant about a delightfully diffuse matron (Billie Burke) whose hobby is putting tramps back on their feet. When unshaven, wayfaring Author Brian Aherne wants to use her telephone, her uplifting eye lights up. First thing Wayfarer Aherne knows he has become the family's handsome, clean-shaven chauffeur; next thing he knows, the roving eye of Daughter Constance Bennett has lit up, too, and he becomes the centre of as stormy a family ruckus as ever squalled. Before its capricious hour-and-a-half...