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...looking fellows. They knew nothing but could talk fast." Cecil B. DeMille "has been sort of a one-man dark ages that has reigned in Hollywood for 30 or 40 years. He learned the trick of making movies about horses, for horses, and he got terribly wealthy." But Sam Goldwyn is "a higher-class fellow. A fine producer, he has no head . . . He has a very intellectual stomach. It would react at a distance of 50 pages. If you were reading a script and it had a wrong passage, Sam's stomach would react. He would turn pale...
...done told you?" said a minor actor rehearsing for Sam Goldwyn's Porgy and Bess movie, and there was thunder on Catfish Row. That sort of so-called Negro dialect, said Actress Pearl (Bess) Bailey, is "undignified and unnatural. I don't care if it's Negro or Italian or Greek or French; it's in bad taste." Producer Goldwyn and Director Otto Preminger willingly told the Negro performers to leave out anything they did not like. Question: Will one of the show's most famed songs be retitled It Is Not Necessarily...
...waddayawanna talk about tonight? Kim Novak's latest? Naw. Sam Goldwyn is 76? Wish him a happy birthday, but what's more to talk about? Lolly Parsons is in Hawaii? Let her stay out there and eat pineapples. Waddayawanna talk about? Tell you what, let's talk about this guy Ernie...
...good news flashed through Madison, Ind. (pop. 10,500) like summer heat lightning. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was coming to town to shoot a $2,500,000 production of James Jones's bad bestselling novel, Some Came Running. Local businessmen came running with promises not to raise prices; local police pitched in to protect M-G-M props; the country club and five hotels and motels were turned over to the movie folk. Nothing so exciting had happened to the green, hilly little Ohio River town since P. T. Barnum brought Jenny Lind to sing in the Pork Palace...
With his budget-bloating Porgy and Bess in suspended production because of a studio fire (TIME, July 14), Cinemogul Sam Goldwyn decided to fire Director Rouben Mamoulian.Reason: "Differences of opinion." "I have the greatest respect for Rouben Mamoulian," said Sam, "but . . ." Said Mamoulian, who directed both the original play and the original musical: "Mr. Goldwyn's bland statement hides a story of deceit and calumny. In a suit which I propose to file, it will be necessary at long last to expose his publicity greed, his professional hypocrisy and selfishness." Mamoulian's examples: Goldwyn insisted that...