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When the film capital shifted from New York to Hollywood, Hearst arranged for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to pay Marion $10,000 a week in return for her talented services-and Hearst publicity for M-G-M films. For Marion, Hearst constructed on the M-G-M lot a 14-room, $75,000 mansion, calling it the "Bungalow." Goodhearted, free-spending Marion dispensed Hearst's money with a generous hand, soon became the most popular actress at the studio, paying doctor bills for office boys, distributing expensive gifts to grips and electricians, even paying a studio...
...Thunder of Drums (M-G-M), the best western released so far in 1961, is three kinds of a durn good show: 1) a flawed but earnest attempt to portray the making of a man and a soldier; 2) a carefully untheatrical, affectionately vernacular attempt to revive the daily life of a frontier fort in the 1870s; 3) a masterly attempt to show what fighting Indians was really like-a hideously silent war of wits with a subtle, cruel enemy who was seldom seen until it was too late...
...campus rebel ("They cling to a tradition that doesn't exist"), protested against her election to exclusive Pi Phi by announcing: "I don't want any girl to be my sister or mother." Later, at Northwestern's famed acting school, Paula impressed an M-G-M scout, who was hunting young talent for Writer-Director Joe Pasternak and Where the Boys Are. Paula flew west - "and there," she recalls, "was itty-bitty Pasternak. The first thing he said was 'Take something off.' I said: 'Listen, I can outrun you.'" She will...
...brothers who were anxious to leave their salaried executive positions at Allied Artists and join the "indie" wave. In less than four years they have grossed $43 million, achieving the fiscal stature of a major studio, and even a partial list of their credits is enough to make M-G-M wish its initials could be changed...
Ring of Fire (M-G-M). "Maybe I can give you a lift," suggests Iaconic David (TV's Richard Diamond) Janssen, the deputy sheriff of a small Oregon town...