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This comment on the cinema industry was made last week at the Harvard School of Business Administration by Producer Samuel Goldwyn. Last fortnight, Producer Goldwyn had more revealing things to say about his own business. In an article for the Satevepost, set down in smooth English by a ghostwriter named Frederick L. Collins, he defended actors' salaries, published for the first time what were generally accepted as the authentic weekly payments to the industry's 15 top-notch performers.* The Goldwyn list...
...Fiddle (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A Broadway success of two years ago, this musicomedy slides neatly into cinema. Set in Brussels and Paris, it is sleek, plausible, sentimental. An operetta composer (Ramon Novarro) meets, loves and teams up with a U. S. girl (Jeanette MacDonald) who also writes songs. A manager (Frank Morgan) likes Novarro's tunes but eyes the girl with more relish. He publishes her song, "The Night is Made for Love," the success of which enables MacDonald and Novarro to live in a glittering Paris flat. But Novarro, producing nothing himself, returns to Brussels in gloom. Miss...
...Everything (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Set unconvincingly at the turn of the century, this picture presents Hannah Bell (May Robson), a stubborn, avaricious, domineering old widow who is "the richest woman in the world." What Hannah Bell cannot buy are love and happiness. She saves money by living in cheap lodgings, making her son's clothes, putting him in a charity hospital. She bullies her bankers. When she grudgingly gives money for a free clinic it is only for spite, to take business away from private practitioners. Throughout the years it is her aim to ruin a banker (Lewis Stone...
...Producer Samuel Goldwyn paid Anna Sten $1,500 a week for doing what...
Like most Goldwyn pictures, Nana was far more expensive than the finished product would suggest. As released this week it represents an investment of about $1,000,000. Anna Sten had to be taught English before production could begin. A version of the picture directed by George Fitzmaurice was scrapped, after being two-thirds finished, because it was over-conscientiously acted. As a build-up for Anna Sten United Artists launched a lavish advertising campaign consisting of daily newspaper "teasers"-Sten portraits with no text except her name and one word to describe her varying expressions ("Mysterious," "Fascinating," "Glamorous," "Worldly...