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University officials are negotiating a contract for a projected Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film entitled "Murder at Harvard" based on the Medical School's Department of Legal Medicine...
...Madre, MGM's The Search and J. Arthur Rank's The Red Shoes. Two lists included Walter Wanger's Joan oj Arc, Robert Flaherty's documentary Louisiana Story, 20th Century-Fox's little comedy, Sitting Pretty, RKO's I Remember Mama and Samuel Goldwyn's The Bishop's Wife. Films that placed on one list: Call Northside 777, Apartment for Peggy, The Naked City, State of the Union, A Foreign Affair, The Pearl, Italy's Paisan and Denmark's Day of Wrath...
Louis B. (Metro-Goldwyn-) Mayer, 63, and second wife Lorena, 41, his bride of two weeks, were right on the beat; breezing through their honeymoon, they arrived in Manhattan, saw several shows, stamped a few rumbas at the Stork Club...
...actress lost her job but she didn't seem very depressed about it. When Sam Goldwyn fired her after she had pleaded illness in postponing a New York publicity junket ("the day is over when stars can get away with this sort of behavior"), Teresa Wright said she would never sign another standard "archaic . . . and . . . absurd" movie contract, because it treated actors like cattle. The exchange of unpleasantries happily coincided with a new Goldwyn picture called Enchantment (see below), starring Teresa Wright...
Enchantment (Goldwyn; RKO Radio), a film version of Rumer Godden's novel Take Three Tenses, is a tear-squeezer which shuttles back & forth between blitz-time London and the gay old '90s. The link is an aged general (David Niven) come home to dream-and to warn the young 'uns against making the same mistakes he did. This leads to so many flashbacks that Enchantment might have sent its audiences into St. Vitus' dance, had it not been for Cameraman Gregg Toland, who completed the picture a few weeks before he died (TIME...