Word: loews
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dark all through the postwar years, Hollywood was hitting the gloomy low notes again last week. Speaking to a mass meeting of some 4,000 M-G-M employees on the concrete areaway in front of sound stage 18, MGM's real boss, President Nicholas M. Schenck of Loew's Inc., spelled out the bad news in unvarnished detail...
Hollywood Pays. Italy's films have been shown mainly at small, arty theaters, attracting audiences who did not mind subtitles. But this spring, Tomorrow Is Too Late, the first Italian film to begin its run in a big Broadway theater (Loew's State), proved that it could pay. In four weeks it grossed $110,000. Encouraged by that success, the Italians launched an ambitious project to "dub" English dialogue into twelve major pictures a year. Last Week Bitter Rice, which has already grossed more than $3,400,000 in the U.S. in a subtitle version, was playing with...
Twelve O'Clock High--Gregory Peck is an air force pilot in this re-release war picture. On the same bill is Canadian Pacific, filmed in color. At E. M. Loew's Center...
...movie business in Dayton, Ohio blames its troubles on TV. Last week Loew's Inc. asked Dayton's county board for a revision of its property valuation. The latest valuation boost of $78,510 on its Dayton property, Loew's claimed, is out of line, considering that attendance at the theater has dropped 43% since last August. The board promised to investigate the situation, along with similar complaints from six other TV-stricken movie houses in Dayton...
Glossy and tinseled, the two features now playing at Loew's State and Orpheum are both based on a primer book conception of American life, a rosey landscape which precludes the appearance of any squalor or the portrayal of any emotional conflict. Each movie was denuded of dramatic meat for a different reason. One, a propaganda-type film scheduled for release around Brotherhood Week, was sterilized to make the American flag shine more brightly. The main feature, The Belle of New York, is a musical and therefore should not need any dramatic merit...