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...that they have jotted down; it takes someone a little unusual to lose all recollection of having written a book. That is what happened to Author Graham Greene, 80, who learned in 1983 that something of his called The Tenth Man had been unearthed from the archives of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. He remembered working under contract to MGM back in 1944 and thought he might have written a brief scenario of a story that could, conceivably, have borne that title. But when the discovered typescript was sent to him, as Greene notes in an introduction, he was astonished: "It proved...
...most members of the class of '43, Nancy Davis did not plunge from college straight into marriage. Indeed, she was out in the world from 1943 to 1952, first as a Marshall Field's shopgirl in Chicago, then as a bit-part Broadway actress, then as a successful Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer contract player. Still, even as she pursued a Hollywood career, she wanted everyone to understand that her hopes and dreams were safely conventional. Her "childhood ambition," she wrote on her MGM biographical questionnaire at 27, was "to be an actress." But her "greatest ambition" was "to have a successful...
...Ignored, unrecognized, the old director hung around in bars, moving in a limbo of almost-deals and the very young women he could never stay away from. Only when he died of a cerebral hemorrhage in 1948 at the age of 73, did recognition arrive. Obituaries were laudatory; Samuel Goldwyn and Louis B. Mayer served as honor ary pallbearers to the man they had ignored in his final years...
...Goldwyn's troubles with the language were officially immortal. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations had now recorded two of the most celebrated Goldwynisms: "In two words: impossible," and the ever fresh "Include...
DIED. Howard Dietz, 86, Hollywood songwriter who penned the lyrics to such standards as Dancing in the Dark, You and the Night and the Music and Louisiana Hayride; of Parkinson's disease; in New York City. A public relations executive who invented Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Leo the Lion trademark and is said to have coined Greta Garbo's line "I want to be alone," Dietz was amazingly prolific (more than 500 songs) and quick, whipping up That's Entertainment in 30 minutes with his longtime collaborator Arthur Schwartz. One of show business's genuine...