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...GOLDWYN...
...group that included John Ford, George Cukor, George Stevens, Cecil B. DeMille, Howard Hawks, Raoul Walsh, William Wyler, Busby Berkeley, Henry King, Ernst Lubitsch and Victor Fleming. Behind them were the producers, who were far more important then than they are now, men such as David O. Selznick, Sam Goldwyn, Darryl F. Zanuck, Pandro S. Berman, Hal Wallis and Arthur Hornblow...
Most film buffs are familiar with the loony malapropisms of Producer Samuel Goldwyn, such as "Include me out" and "I read part of it all the way through." But how many remember when Goldwyn and his competitor Jack Warner co-produced the following wonderful gaffe? At a postwar banquet for Britain's war hero Field Marshal Montgomery, Goldwyn rose and proposed a toast to "Marshall Field Montgomery." After a stunned silence, Warner corrected him, "Montgomery Ward, you mean...
Parker's influence in the wine trade is fairly awesome itself. In France, some vintners await his thrice-yearly tasting visits with the same trepidation that restaurateurs have for the annual Le Guide Michelin ratings. Craig Goldwyn, editor of the rival International Wine Review, says Parker has "one of the greatest palates ever to walk the earth," although some writers complain that as a taster he favors strength over subtlety. (Parker, of course, denies it.) His critics also carp that his success is based primarily on a 50-to-100-point rating system for wines that is fast becoming...
...challenge of making movies on the cheap is to keep them from looking the part. Thus the scrimping goes on behind the scenes, where the cast and the crew forgo the usual Hollywood frills. Says Larry Jackson, head of production for Goldwyn: "We have only one hairdresser instead of six. People share bathrooms. In many cases, you'll find actors carrying props." Moreover, big- name actors sometimes agree to work for reduced wages on small pictures they believe in. Says Bette Davis, who stars in Alive Films' The Whales of August, to be released in September: "What Jack Warner...