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Schary kept mum about his plans, and refused to verify any rumors (that he might go to Goldwyn, Columbia or back to Selznick). The people he left behind at RKO were not taking it so calmly. In a business where many of the bosses learned about movies in banks or haberdasheries, there was a special fondness for a producer who had worked his way up from a scripter. "It was a great shock," said one admirer. "That man is a writer...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...Smith, carnation-sporting general manager of the Los Angeles Daily News. As a regional monthly it grew from a circulation of 913 to 53,000, but was losing $15,000 an issue, having set its contract ad rates too low. Bob Smith signed up two new angels: Moviemaker Sam Goldwyn and Manhattan's Webb & Knapp, Inc., run by William Zeckendorf (TIME...
Better Pictures? To Sam Goldwyn, the No.1 independent, this was whistling past the graveyard. Goldwyn, who has been fighting the booking practices of the big studios on his own, thought the independents had won all down the line. The court, said he, had "clearly recognized the monopoly exercised by the major companies in the first-run field." He was sure that the lower court would order divorcement. Moreover, added Sam, well aware of the closeness of many moviemakers, "it will be necessary to see that divorcement means more than just a transfer of circuit control from one set of hands...
Producer Sam Goldwyn had his say in the Screenwriter: "What bothers me deeply is why the practitioners of the art have failed, on the whole, to become truly creative artists but rather have been content, in the main, to remain little more than glassblowers, huffing and puffing and blowing up slender ideas-their own or others' -into some sort of shape for the screen. What has happened to fresh; honest, vital, original writing for the screen...