Word: loewe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...practices" for which another receivership seemed inevitable. That was five years ago. Last week Paramount stockholders got their third-quarter report: profits were $3,071,000, highest since 1930 and almost double the $1,726,000 cleared a year ago. More significant, this net was twice that of archrival Loew's Inc. After ten years of tussling, Paramount was again the biggest money-maker in show business...
After one of the biggest build-ups in recent Hollywood history, Rita Hayworth makes her costarring debut in R. K. O.'s "You'll Never Get Rich," now showing at Loew's State and Orpheum. She is called upon to fill the shoes--or rather, dancing slippers--of Ginger Rogers, and to twirl the light fantastic with filmdom's ablest dancer, Fred Astaire. It's to her credit that she does a snappy job, although she is continually outshone in their dancing scenes by her flashier partner. This is a fate which was shared by La Rogers as well...
...hard to say whether "Honky Tonk" or "Harmon of Michigan" is dragging them in by the hundreds at Loew's this week. But is doesn't take a great deal of cinematic insight to see that it's the later which is driving them out almost as fast as they can flock...
stage employes' and projectionists' union, and Bioff, who is his Hollywood ambassador, had chiseled $550,000 from Hollywood film companies by threatening to stir up strikes among the 35,000 union members in the industry. Named as victims of the alleged extortion: Twentieth Century-Fox, Loew's, Paramount, Warner Brothers...
Bedroom farces used to be funny because they were the exception to the rule and because they usually had some amusing dialogue, or plot, or direction, or acting. But the inevitable Hollywood stagnation has crept into even this field; and the result is that "Come Live With Me" at Loew's is slow, unfunny, badly acted, and anything but sophisticated, as it tries so hard...