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Suzy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). When the heroine of this picture, an impulsive chorus girl stranded in London, buys a newspaper to read on the boat to France, the headline says: AUSTRIAN ARCHDUKE ASSASSINATED AT SARAJEVO. The purpose of the picture, up to this point unrevealed, thereafter becomes clear. Other stories have shown some of the individual happenings which overtook individual farmers, bellringers, soda-jerkers, et al. at the outbreak of War. Suzy sets out to include in one picture all happenings which overtook all chorus girls stranded in all countries in all wars. Over a period...
...this to Joe Schenck, that U. S. cineman agreed with him. And since plenty of cash might further the idea, they mentioned it to Nick Schenck, who not only runs the most consistently profitable U. S. cinema company, Loew's Inc., but also its prodigious production subsidiary, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. After much shuttling between London, Manhattan and Hollywood, Isidore Ostrer and Nick Schenck were able to sit down with Joe Schenck last week and face the Press united.* Their deal...
...Hollywood Director Howard Hawks last week conducted screen tests to find an actor to play opposite Cinemactress Andrea Leeds in Producer Sam Goldwyn's forthcoming picture Come and Get It. For a typical sequence he chose one in which the actor kissed Cinemactress Leeds eight times. In order to give each of three prospects-John Payne, Bob Lowrey and Tennist Frank Shields-a fair chance, he had each do the sequence 20 or more times. The tests took more than three hours each. At the end of the day a script clerk announced that Cinemactress Leeds had been kissed...
Responding to their sense of propriety, pressagents for Producer Goldwyn, instead of trying to conceal these goings-on, promptly announced them as a record...
Sued. Cinemagnate Samuel Goldwyn; by Cinemagnate Adolph Zukor, for Paramount Pictures Corp.; for $5,000,000 damages arising from Goldwyn's "theft" of Paramount's topflight Cinemactor Gary Cooper; in Los Angeles...