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Parnell (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) exhibits Clark Gable and Myrna Loy as Charles Parnell and Katie O'Shea in a screen version of the play by the late Elsie Schauffler (TIME, Nov. 25. 1935). As a cinema production, Parnell ranks high. Everything in it, from the London fog to the handles on the doors of Parliament, rebuilt life-size on a sound stage, is scrupulously authentic. As history, it ranks low, since it not only telescopes Parnell's career but also whitewashes it to suit the Hays office. As entertainment, it ranks in between. The screen play by John...
...even the producer does not stand to make money in very large quantities. Gilbert Miller is delighted when Tovarich grosses $15,000 a week. George Abbott is lucky to get $12,000 out of Brother Rat. The only real money in show business comes occasionally from Hollywood, when a Goldwyn offers $160,000 for a Dodsworth or Columbia gets You Can't Take It With...
Pick a Star (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) slapsticks the story of the sweet young girl who makes good in Hollywood. In Waterloo, Kans., pretty Cecilia Moore (Rosina Lawrence) wins a beauty contest managed by her boy friend Joe Jenkins (Jack Haley) only to find that the prize money has been stolen. Chagrined to see her humiliated, Joe journeys to Hollywood to try to land her a film job. But the forced landing of an American Airlines plane at Waterloo gives screenstruck Cecilia her chance to meet Cinemactor Rinaldo Lopez (Mischa Auer), fly out to the Coast with him and her noisy...
...other original producers have almost ceased producing pictures in the last five years. Since United Artists stopped making their own pictures, other producers have made pictures for the company to release to exhibitors. Of the producers who release through United Artists, two have bought partnerships in the firm: Sam Goldwyn (1926) and Alexander Korda (1935). Last week, after nine days of conferences coinciding with United Artists' annual board meeting, the company's President Attilio Henry Giannini announced that United Artists' two newest partners had arranged to buy out its three remaining old ones...
Price which Producers Goldwyn & Korda will pay onetime Actors Chaplin, Fairbanks and Pickford was supposed to be $6,000,000. Terms were roughly $1,000,000 in cash, $5,000,000 within 90 days. Producers Goldwyn & Korda will put up $3,000,000 each. Under the old terms, 60% of United Artists' revenue went to Chaplin, Fairbanks and Pickford even when they made no pictures. Under the new terms, all will go to Producers Goldwyn & Korda but if any of the original members feels like making a picture, United Artists will distribute it. The deal does not affect producers...