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...Samuel Goldwyn, after a successful prostate operation, checked out of Manhattan's Harkness Pavilion, where he had quietly observed his 24th wedding anniversary, with wife Frances and a bottle of Madeira, smuggled past the doctors...
...impresarios, Producer Stanley Kramer and George Glass, were sitting pretty. On something like $600,000 (chicken feed for a modern A movie), they had made a picture which some experts guessed would gross $3,000,000. They had also delivered a stiff uppercut to Hollywood's heavyweights. Sam Goldwyn promptly bought up the talents of Champion's young (34) Director Mark Robson (who, like Douglas, will continue to do one picture a year for Screen Plays). Aggressive little Screen Plays' next: Home of the Brave, the first of the new Hollywood cycle on the Negro problem (TIME...
FRESHMAN FENCING--Minor Numerals 1952--Walter G. Alwang, Robert B. Aronson, Robert M. Goldwyn, Richard D. Kahn, Christopher Martin, Manager Robert J. Nichol, John W. Smith, Eric T. Sollee, Ellis Traub...
Script (circ. 27,000), the West Coast imitation of The New Yorker, had almost written "The End" last Christmas, when the magazine's backers (including Moviemaker Sam Goldwyn and General Manager Bob Smith of the Los Angeles Daily News) pulled out. Publisher Ik Shuman, once an editor of The New Yorker, bought the monthly from them for $1, and tried to keep it going. But production costs were too high, and revenue too low. Last week Shuman sadly put the final issue to bed. Then he called his creditors together to write a P.S. to Script. Debts...
Moviemaker Sam Goldwyn welcomed television with some rolling prose for the New York Times Magazine: "The future of motion pictures, conditioned as it will be by the competition of television, is going to have no room for the deadwood of the present or the faded glories of the past." And a good thing, too, thought Goldwyn: "It will take brains instead of just money to make pictures...