Word: hollywood
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hollywood offices of the Hays organization last week, six of Hollywood's major producers-Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Vice President Louis B. Mayer, Fox Production Chief Winfield Sheehan, Warner Brothers' Jack Warner, Columbia's Harris Cohn, President Benjamin B. Kahane of RKO, Comedy-Producer Hal Roach-met to decide what to do. Their 10,000 underlings, whose total weekly pay amounts to $1,500,000, blenched at the rumor that all studios would close for at least four weeks. Next day the producers met again. They decided they could keep studios open temporarily at least...
Cinema employes in Hollywood are divided roughly into two groups-high-salaried stars, writers and directors, with individual contracts; lower salaried union workers-film cutters, projectionists, sound technicians, "grips" (property movers), laboratory workers. On the assumption that the unions would accept the cut, the high-salaried employes held meetings of their own and agreed to share their employers' woes, only demanding an audit of studio books first. Cinemactress Marie Dressier wired her acceptance. Writer Laurence Stallings said he was "proud to be the first" to take the cut. Cinemactors Jack Oakie and Stuart Erwin were still arguing when earthquake...
Producers, union heads and an emergency committee of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences met at the Roosevelt Hotel. At Hollywood's United Airport, three planes piloted by members of the stunt flyers' union were waiting, in case union demands were not met, to fly over the studios with black trailers as a signal for union labor to quit. The hotel meeting became so excited that when it adjourned with nothing decided, no one remembered to notify the pilots. While the meeting continued later, in Producer Ben Schulberg's bungalow at Paramount, a smart stenographer found...
Whether or not high-salaried workers would work for half pay during the period of arbitration was what they were to decide when the studios closed last week. If they agreed to do it, producers had three more weeks in which to find a way to keep Hollywood's huge, eccentric, unpredictable cinema industry from shutting down completely...
...gives a performance in Christopher Strong which frequently brings Frankau's drawing room tragedy sharply to life. The picture-in which the title rôle is secondary-can therefore be considered a success; its purpose was to provide a glamorous background for an actress whom experts consider Hollywood's most notable box-office find since Joan Crawford. In her first cinema (A Bill of Divorcement, last autumn) Katharine Hepburn came as close as anyone can to stealing a picture from John Barrymore. Before that she had been a stage actress whose principal talent seemed...