Word: goldwynism
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Movies are known as the private possession of Hollywood, but the college got into the act in fine style. Ivy Films, post-war undergraduate organization, finished its first production and sold out the University Theatre for a special world premiere. Metro Goldwyn Mayor kept a star and production crew in the Yard four days taking background shots for a murder mystery "semi documentary" featuring the Medical School's Department of Legal Medicine...
...Foolish Heart (Goldwyn; RKO Radio) is the kind of movie that gives women a good cry and men a bad time. Strangely enough, it comes from a short story by J. D. Salinger in The New Yorker, literary stronghold of the stiff upper lip. Under the treatment of scripter-brothers Julius and Philip Epstein, the screenplay turns on all the emotional faucets of a Woman's Home Companion serial...
...eyed moments, this damp fable is brightened by some well-written patches of wryly amusing dialogue. The whole picture wears an air of quality, thanks to Samuel Goldwyn's handsome production and a group of sincere performances directed by Mark (Champion) Robson. Robert Keith, a Broadway veteran playing his first screen role, acts the heroine's sympathetic father with sure skill. But nothing offsets the blight of such tear-splashed excesses as the bloop-bleep-bloop of a sentimental ballad on the sound track. Also, the film's makers seem to have shot two different endings...
...Clark Gable has been dating recently received the news of his elopement with Lady Stanley in a variety of ways-from bitterness to stiff upper lip. Said Virginia Grey, who is sometimes called Hollywood's "most gorgeous blonde": "Oh my God! Is it true?" Pretty Elaine White, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer secretary: "Well, I sure wasted a Christmas card, I guess." Producer Joan Harrison: "We were just good friends." Long before the fact, Paulette Goddard was quoted as saying: "That's that. So long, sugar." In San Francisco, as the Gables started on a Hawaiian honeymoon, several hundred unidentified...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer said goodbye to the Yard yesterday, completing its Harvard shooting for "Mystery Street" with scenes near Harvard and Sever Halls...