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...gene bank if it returned eyes as crystal blue as hers, features and figures as smart and sensuous. Add a dusky voice and no little acting potential, and you have God's recipe for a movie star. But if Farmer was a blessed presence in Samuel Goldwyn's Come and Get It and a dozen B pictures, her life was one roiling curse. She was part of a movie age that glorified the strong-willed woman and punished the ac tresses who incarnated them. Hepburn, Davis, De Havilland were all mistreated by moguls who wanted their stars...
DIED. David Weisz, 70, international auctioneer who through his Los Angeles-based company, International Fastener Research Corp., bought and sold the Harland & Wolff Shipyards in Belfast, all the props and costumes of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio in Culver City, Calif, and the Robert Hall chain of clothing stores, which he sold off individually; in Los Angeles...
...what last year? Jimmy Carter, President of the U.S.: $200,000. Nolan Ryan, pitcher for the Houston Astros: $1 million. Lane Kirkland, president of the AFL-CIO: $98,000. Barbara Walters, TV interviewer: $1 million. Judith Krantz, author of Princess Daisy: about $2.2 million. Frank Rosenfelt, president of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the nation's best paid businessman: $5.1 million...
...revue, and provided the smash number for Cole Porter's 1930 musical, The New Yorkers. Other Broadway hits followed, including Porter's Red, Hot and Blue, which co-starred Bob Hope and Ethel Merman. It did not take long for Durante to get a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in Hollywood. His first film, New Adventures of Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1931), was written by Charles MacArthur...
...entrepreneurial brains are provided by BJ. Farber, a fictional composite of those remarkable immigrants who parlayed dry-goods stores, nickelodeons and theater chains into movie fiefs. They are here too: Goldwyn, Mayer, Zukor, et al. Farber is a lovable old shark. The book's unlovable shark is Hareem Adani, a New York-based conglomerate chief out to add Farber Films to his corporate shell collection...