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...Hucksters is Book-of-the-Month Club choice for June, and M-G-M has paid $200,000 for a seven-year lease of the movie rights. It is dedicated "to those who sometimes awake suddenly to stare into the leisure of the night and consider with brief terror how their lives are spent." Least effective when it is most solemn, it reaches its top levels when sardonically demonstrating what Critic Clifton Fadiman calls "the yawning disproportion between the ingenuity of the means and the triviality of the ends" in advertising. Long-suffering radio audiences may also hope...
...where numerous relatives of mine have written TIME, frantically yelping that they are cousins of Sam Marx of M-G-M [TIME, April 8]. The Marx fortunes have certainly sunk to a low ebb when members of the family find it necessary to rush into print to claim relationship to anyone...
Well, we made the picture and that's that. The point is that Harpo and Chico are brothers but they are both strangers to me. And, as for Sam Marx of M-G-M who reluctantly confesses to being their cousin-well, he's slightly mistaken. The fact of the matter is, he happens to be their joint child by a former marriage...
Variety's high box-office scores (for April): 1) Dragonwyck (20th Century-Fox); 2) Ziegfeld Follies (M-G-M); 3) The Virginian (Paramount); 4) Saratoga Trunk (Warner); 5) Road to Utopia (Paramount...
...Postman Always Rings Twice (M-G-M). When James M. Cain started writing his hard, high-strung little novels twelve years ago, it struck many screen-wise readers that he was putting on paper a kind of movie that Hollywood would never dare put on celluloid. Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder sensationally proved how wrong that was, two years ago, with Double Indemnity, Ranald Mac-Dougall, Catherine Turney and Michael Curtiz followed up last year with Mildred Pierce, less expert yet crudely exciting. But the screen version of The Postman Always Rings Twice, the first, most ferocious...