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...last week sat 82-year-old Justice Sir Horace Avory. Before him, also gowned and wigged, were two of the greatest trial barristers in all Britain-Sir Patrick Hastings for the prosecution, Sir William Jowitt for the defense. Handsome, hollow-eyed Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov was suing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd. for damages. She charged that she had been libeled and her character defamed by a rape episode in MGM's cinema Rasputin, the Mad Monk. The courtroom was jampacked by a curious crowd which knew that for the first time the true story of how Rasputin...
Best Production: Farewell to Arms (Paramount), Cavalcade (Fox), 42nd Street (Warners), / Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (Warners), Lady for a-Day (Columbia), Little Women (Radio), She Done Him Wrong (Paramount), Smilin' Thru (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), State Fair (Fox),'Henry the VIII (London Films-United Artists...
Five million members of Dickens clubs hoped The Life of Our Lord would start a Dickens revival. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has already announced a film version of David Copperfield...
...George Horace Lorimer was reduced from $133,399 in 1929 to $118,750 in 1932. Adolph Zukor's bonus as president of Paramount Publix was $757,500 in 1929, plus salary of $130,000. For 1932 he listed salary of $96,031, no bonus. But Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's famed Producer Irving Thalberg, who received $208,000 straight salary in 1929, was still getting $201,000 in 1932-$99,000 less than M-G-M pays Greta Garbo for her 40-week year...
Said Producer Goldwyn: "The reason given for the latest Washington agitation about motion picture salaries was that someone had discovered that about 400 persons in Hollywood were drawing 51% of the salaries. ... I was surprised at these figures. I would have said that 40 persons in Hollywood deserved to draw 51% of the Hollywood income." Public bragging about stars' salaries was customary in Hollywood until major cinema companies began going bankrupt. Lately all producers have shut down on this kind of information for fear the size of their salary lists would create an unwarranted impression of affluence which...