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...Nicholas M. Schenck, 72, last cinemogul to head a major film company continuously from the silent movies to CinemaScope, stepped from president and chief executive officer to board chairman of Loew's Inc. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Manhattan radio station WMGM, M-G-M records, etc.). Loew's new boss: Arthur Marcus Loew, 58, whose father founded the original theater chain (which by U.S. court order is now a separate company) and merged three fledgling moviemakers into MGM. Arthur Loew attended Alexander Hamilton Institute and New York University ('18), enlisted in the Navy in World...
This cancellation was necessitated last week when the film library of the Museum of Modern Art notified the organization that Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had withdrawn the movie from public circulation...
Guys and Dolls. Marlon Brando Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Elaine in Samuel Goldwyn's $5,000,000 musical...
...with the Gun (Goldwyn Jr.; United Artists) has all the splendid cardboard heroics of the classic western. Sheridan City is so terrorized by a villainous rancher named Dade Holman that the panicky citizens hire flint-eyed, flint-faced Robert Mitchum to civilize the community. Inside of ten minutes, four of Holman's badmen are being measured for coffins. Casually holstering his guns, Town-Tamer Mitchum suggests burying at least two of them out on the wild prairie, because "Sheridan City's too small to have such a big cemetery...
Guys and Dolls. Marlon Brando, Jean Simmons, Frank Sinatra, Vivian Elaine in Samuel Goldwyn's $5,000,000 version of the Broadway musical. It's a beaut, but Sam made the prints too long (TIME...