Word: goldwynism
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...Goldwyn managed, as usual, to get foot in mouth once: taking pains to commend Hoagy Carmichael, he referred to the singer-composer as "Hugo...
...Oscars, Sam Goldwyn's The Best Years of Our Lives won nine-almost all the important ones. The picture itself was Oscared as the best of the year. Sam was Oscared for the year's best contribution to the industry. William Wyler was Oscared for directing Best Years. Fredric March was named the year's best actor for his role in it. Handless Veteran Harold Russell was chosen the best supporting actor, and got another Oscar just on general principles. (Best supporting actress: Anne Baxter in The Razor's Edge...
...Hollywood had not exactly proved, even to itself, that it was really good in 1946. But it had proved that the Academy vote is nowadays reasonably free from political pressure. There was a time when it was possible for two majors to gang up on one independent (like Samuel Goldwyn) and deal him right out the back door...
...when horse racing was changing from rich man's sport and poor man's ruin to big business, Metro-Goldwyn's Mayer became one of the top spenders. He sank more than $5,000,000 in horseflesh and horse farms. A man who likes to run things himself, he found that he was working harder at his hobby than at running Hollywood's richest movie studio. Last week, after convincing himself it just wasn't fun any more, L.B. sold...
Readers of syndicated Columnist Billy Rose got some inside dope that confirmed an old suspicion. Showman Rose, noted as a judge of beauty, confessed that "all this stuff about my being a picker of pretties is loo-proof malarkey. And the same goes for Ziegfeld, Carroll, White and Goldwyn. . . . Any boy who likes girls can pick them." How to do it for a show: "You put an ad in the paper. . . . Several hundred gals show up. . . . First you eliminate the impossibles. . . . You ask the remaining girls to parade. . . . What do you look for? The same things you look for when...