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...partners have it. Both Hanna, 50, who was born in New Mexico and raised in Los Angeles, and Barbera, 47, who was born and raised in Brooklyn, had drifted among the big-time animation mills-Terry Toons, Looney Toons, Merry Melodies-before they came together at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1937. There they created the most exciting mano a mano in the history of film cartoons-matchless Tom and Jerry. For 18 years they manipulated the big cat and the little mouse for MGM's critical and financial profit, year after year sat mousily at home uninvited while some...
...Samuel Goldwyn Jr.; M-G-M), the fourth film version of Mark Twain's fictional portrait of the artist as a young rube, has suffered the melancholy fate of Old Hank Bunker. "Old Hank," said Huck, "he . . . fell off the shot-tower, and spread himself out so that he was just a kind of a layer, as you may say; and they slid him edgeways between two barn doors for a coffin, and buried him so, so they say, but I didn't see it." Moviegoers may now see it, thanks to Sam Goldwyn Jr., who spent...
...smelt like his surroundings. As played by Actor Hodges, a stage child who got his start on Broadway in The Music Man, the prototype of frontier boyhood is a freckled-faced mother's darling who reeks of soap and suburban charm, and who looks exactly the way Producer Goldwyn wanted him to look: like "a Missouri Peter Pan." But Finn fans will forget this minor blemish as they contemplate the moviemakers' supreme achievement: from one of the funniest books ever written by the funniest writer America has produced, they have managed to eliminate almost all the laughs...
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...reason so many people showed up at his funeral was because they wanted to be sure he was dead." Thus, the legend goes, did Movie Magnate Sam Goldwyn dispose of his longtime colleague and competitor, Louis B. Mayer. By quoting the remark near the start of his new biography, Hollywood Rajah (Holt; $5.50), New York Times Movie Critic Bosley Crowther makes plain that he feels no kindlier toward the onetime junk dealer who became one of Hollywood's gaudiest tycoons, created stars from Garbo to Rooney, wrote his name on some of the best and worst pictures...