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...Often Miss Harlow's leading man, Mr. Gable was working with her on Saratoga when she was stricken. One sequence in this racehorse film prophetically required Miss Harlow to be gravely examined by a physician with a stethoscope. Saratoga, announced M-G-M last week, will now be re-written to suit a "new and entirely different persona''ty." According to Louis B. Mayer, she will be a comparatively unknown brunette from Worcester, Mass., named Rita Johnson who won recognition on Broadway this season in George M. Cohan's Fulton of Oak Falls...
...Edna May Durbin was born in Winnipeg, brought up in Los Angeles where her father is a broker. She started taking singing lessons at 11. Last year her voice caught the ear of Hollywood Agent-Manager Jack Sherrill who put her under contract, got her a test with M-G-M for a picture that was never made. Her possibilities impressed Associate Producer Rufus LeMaire. When he joined Universal, he persuaded the new company to hire her, changed her name...
...Universal's Carl Laemmle, for whom he filmed his first big show, The Hunchback of Notre Dame, in 1923. Soon stolen by MGM, he produced Ben Hur, The Merry Widow, The Big Parade, developed such stars as Lon Chaney, Robert Montgomery. Clark Gable, Greta Garbo, made M-G-M millions at the boxoffice. Addicted to nervous overwork, he arranged his most ambitious and recent film, Romeo & Juliet, around his wife, Norma Shearer (TIME...
Sentenced to 15 days in the Los Angeles County Jail for reckless driving was reedy William Wallace Reid, 19, son of the late sporty Cinemactor Wallace Reid. Said young Reid, surprised at the sentence: "I'd earned $25 doing a high dive in an M-G-M picture, and I brought it with me. I thought I'd be fined...
More significant for the Schencks will be savings resulting from consolidation of their British producing units with those of Gaumont. Henceforth, Gaumont will make for M-G-M and Fox the pictures which British law requires a foreign cinema company to produce in Britain under its quota system. For every 1,000 ft. of film which, say, M-G-M exports to Britain, another 225 ft. has to be shot on British lots. Slapped together as cheaply as possible, these "quota" films are even more of an imposition on British audiences than "summer fare...