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...Nicholas M. Schenck, 74, one of Hollywood's last tycoons, quit the board of Loew's Inc., world's biggest moviemaker (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, some 170 U.S. and foreign theaters, M-G-M records). A Russian immigrant boy who peddled papers, Nick Schenck got in at the start of the picture business, fought his way to the presidency of Loew's in 1927. Last year, as earnings fell and the threat of a stockholders' proxy fight rose, Schenck moved upstairs to board chairman, later honorary chairman...
From Wilshire Boulevard to Wall Street, stockholders in the world's biggest moviemaking company chose up sides in the most colossal management fight in Hollywood history. The prize: control of Loew's Inc., which encompasses Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, M-G-M Records, some 170 U.S. and foreign theaters, plus a $33 million funded debt. To head off the battle, Joseph Vogel, Loew's president of three weeks, flew from his Manhattan office to Hollywood, hustled through the first leg of a monthlong, no-martini inspection, promised to find out what was wrong...
...lesson to be learned from The King and I lies in the fact that two most effective scenes are the two simplest. No line of Goldwyn girls endlessly kicking as they fade toward infinity nor any impeccably starched and waltzing Corps Diplomatique nor all the magnolia-scented balls that Darryl Zanuck ever threw had half the grace of Yul Brynner and Deborah Kerr romping alone to "Shall We Dance...
Guys and Dolls. Sam Goldwyn's adaptation of the Broadway musical; with Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Elaine and plenty of moxie (TIME...
Guys and Dolls. Sam Goldwyn's $5,000,000 adaptation of the Broadway musical; with Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Elaine and plenty of moxie (TIME...