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...Late starters: Gentleman's Agreement, still shooting at Fox; Earth and High Heaven, written but postponed at Sam Goldwyn...
Movie-Mad. Nevertheless, in 1922, Hedda divorced DeWolf, who objected to her movie career and resented her equal earning power ($1,000 a week). For Hedda was there when the flickers were born. She knew Hollywood in 1915, when it was a village near Los Angeles. She knew Sam Goldwyn when his name was Goldfish, and played in several of his pictures in the Biograph studio on New Jersey's Palisades...
...home a very hefty load of bacon. Carol Reed's Odd Man Out (Rank) was awarded honors as the best production job of 1946; but a U.S. picture was the only one to receive more than one award. William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (Goldwyn) was honored as the best story (by Robert E. Sherwood from a MacKinlay Kantor novel), and Myrna Loy was named the year's best actress for her work in the picture. Brussels' equivalent to Hollywood's Oscar, a bronze statuette of St. Michel, went...
...Hollywood's Oscars (including almost all the important ones) went this year to Sam Goldwyn's movie about returning veterans: 1. The Best Years of Our Lives. 4. To Each...
Golden-voiced Baker surely ranks as one of the better crooners: his "Love Walked In" softens up the gruffest customer and sends him away humming. In addition there are the Goldwyn Girls; Vera Zorina in a number of first-rate ballet offerings; the Ritz Brothers running hot and cold through a dozen harebrained interludes; and Phil Baker with accordion and gags. There is little doubt who makes the ranking bid to steal the show: Bergen and McCarthy at their first-flush-of-fame best sparring with Baker and more delightfully with Bobby Clark. Even the W. C. Fields routine with...