Word: loews
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Marquand told the jammed house at Loew's State last night, after the picture had been shown, that if any of the lines in the movie were bad, the fault lies with director King, Vidor and Robert Young. If any of the lines are good, he added, it is because they are his. Mr. Marquand's concern is unnecessary, and he need not lose much sleep over the transfer of his subtle literary satire from paper to celluloid. It is an excellent film, well-acted and brilliantly directed, and Harvard graduates from Maine to Texas will rejoice in the gentle...
...Money. Hollywood does not believe in sharing its profits with idle stockholders. In 1939, seven of the eight major studios paid their 188 executives 19% ($6,086,000) of their net profits. Of this sum, almost 35% went to 24 Loew's officials. Only U.S. department-store executives got more (32%) of their firms' net. At that time the motion-picture industry ranked 14th among 18 top U.S. industries in annual volume of business...
...elite of Hollywood numbers some 250 producers, executives, directors, actors, writers, publicity experts, miscellaneous key men. Rulers of the elite are seven top executives of Hollywood's Big Four: Louis B. Mayer and Edgar J. Mannix, of Loew's Inc. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer); Paramount's Y. (for Young) Frank Freeman; 20th Century-Fox's Darryl F. Zanuck and Joseph M. Schenck (now appealing a three-year sentence for income-tax evasion); Warner Bros.' Harry M. and Jack L. Warner...
...President Nicholas M. Schenck of Loew's, Inc. in 1934, got friendly with him over office luncheons at which each ate an apple. Three or four meetings and a half-dozen apples later, Schenck asked him a favor. Brother Joseph Schenck (onetime chairman of 20th Century-Fox, now appealing a three-year sentence for income-tax evasion) was gathering a fund to fight "sandbagging" of the movie industry by State legislatures. Somebody had to pick up the money from the industry, deliver...
This week Paramount stockholders were the happiest of a happy lot. At its present rate, Paramount should earn $10,000,000 this year-a record since 1930. Loew's earnings rate points to $8,500,000-$9,000,000. Moreover, the very brick-and-mortar which swamped Paramount in 1933 is now its most profitable possession...