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MOVIE-TV BATTLE will soon be intensified by a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer giveaway gimmick aimed at luring children and parents away from TV sets. Quaker Oats, will insert tickets to two new M-G-M movies in each, of 80 million packages of cereal. The free tickets can be used only by children under 12. The catch: they must be accompanied by an adult-who will have to pay regular admission...
Sold to Sam Goldwyn for a record price of $1,000,000, Guys and Dolls is now flung to the cheap seats as a $5.000,000 Hollywood musical. Despite some bad lapses, it is a Sam-dandy of a picture show, a 158-minute blur of unmitigated energy, one of the year's best musicals...
Guys and Dolls (Samuel Goldwyn; M-G-M), as a Broadway musical, had all the vulgar swagger of a fink* with his mink at 4 a.m. on the crosstown, and a lot more salt than the lox in Lindy's. It was not really Runyon, just as Runyon was not really Broadway, but as a pinstriped fairy tale with garlic on its breath, it made an honest-to-Gotham hit, and it ran for three years...
Ballard said that the show's Cambridge premiere will be attended by the Hasty Pudding's selection of the Woman-of-the-Year. He added that the less chosen may come from a field of candidates including Grace Kelly, Jean Simmons, and the Five Goldwyn Girls, stars of the new movie, "Guys and Dolls...
Cinemogul Samuel Goldwyn, interviewed on the eve of his 73rd birthday, abandoned his famed malapropisms in favor of some straight-spoken reminiscences. Recalling how he had teamed up with Jesse Lasky and Cecil B. DeMille to grind out Hollywood's first full-length feature film, The Squaw Man, in 1913, Pioneer Goldwyn chuckled: "What a trio to go into the movie business! I had seen one movie-something with Broncho Billy [G. M. Anderson] chasing a train. Jesse and Cecil had never seen any!" After Director DeMille had inexpertly filmed The Squaw Mart (with Dustin Farnum and Winifred Kingston...