Word: goldwynism
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...There is a crying need for college men to enter moving pictures," said Samuel Goldwyn, motion picture producer of note, to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday afternon...
...iron worker on the dizzy girders. He was a millionaire in disguise. But a millionaire can fall off a narrow steel beam as fast as the next man. The picture made its point. Richard Dix is acceptable as the young man. Frances Howard, who recently married Samuel Goldwyn amid excited publicity, seemed rather slight and spiritless. The Talker. This ponderous project indicates that, even if a woman must yearn for a career, she must not talk about it around the family fireside. This wife talked and put bad ideas into one young lady's head which...
Married. Samuel Goldwyn, 43, (original name Goldfish), film producer, onetime husband of Blanche Lasky (sister of Jesse L. Lasky of the Famous Players-Lasky Corporation), to Miss Frances Howard, stage and screen actress; in Jersey City...
Waking Up the Town. A story circulated recently to the effect that Norma Shearer has signed a long contract with Goldwyn which will eventually net her $1,000 a day. Miss Shearer is a fairly good actress; but if she is worth $1,000 a day. ... In this adventure, she cooperates with Jack Pickford in the construction of a power plant for the citizens of Rainbow Falls. There is at one point a fairly ingenious sequence stolen from the recent end-of-the-world scare...
...Girl. When they finished this picture at the Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer studios, it was terrible. A visiting newspaperman from Manhattan (one Laurence Stallings) took a look, made a suggestion. That suggestion made The Way of a Girl one of the best cinema satires ever produced. It was a melodrama at first. They cut it into about 100 pieces, inserted an author at work, his characters in conference around his typewriter, their decisions, bloody subtitles. You'll have to laugh, particularly when you think that it might have appeared before you as melodrama unadorned...