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...made or what themes they have, he will drive the company into the ground." Maybe so, but it was not Turner who said, "Public morality is a very important factor on the screen. I seriously object to seeing on the screen what belongs in the bedroom." That was Samuel Goldwyn, and his philosophy helped produce MGM's golden era. --By Janice Castro. Reported by Denise Worrell/Los Angeles, with other bureaus...
...Greer Garson's daughter-in-law in Mrs. Miniver. Her wholesome but refined screen presence graced some of the '40s best movies, including Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt and William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives. Still, she was fired by her benefactor Samuel Goldwyn for refusing to don swimsuits for publicity photos. "I'm just not the glamour type," she said...
...Garson's daughter-in-law in Mrs. Miniver. Her wholesome but refined screen presence graced some of the best films of the '40s, including Alfred Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt and William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives. Still, she was fired by her benefactor, Samuel Goldwyn, for refusing to don swimsuits for publicity photos. "I'm just not the glamour type," she said...
...billion Price a Sony-led group will pay to acquire Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, the last major independent U.S. film studio...
DIED. VERA ZORINA, 86, star ballerina turned Hollywood actress of the 1930s and '40s; in Santa Fe, N.M. Born Eva Brigitta Hartwig in Berlin, she was married for eight years to George Balanchine, who choreographed her performances as a sultry nymph in the 1938 film The Goldwyn Follies, the angel in the Broadway musical I Married an Angel and the lead muse in his 1943 ballet, Apollo...