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Last summer the leading lady swept on to what may become her greatest triumph. Wowed by the ability displayed-and the receipts shown-by some of her recent foreign pictures (The Last Bridge, The Heart of the Matter, Gervaise), the we-gotta-have-new-talent hounds at M-G-M came briskly to a point.* Actress Schell was promptly signed to a comfy contract, written to her own shrewd terms: four Hollywood pictures in seven years, $100,000 for the first picture, $175,000 for the last, script and director to be approved by Actress Schell, full freedom...
...Bergman? Last week M-G-M was getting ready to hurl "the blonde bomb Schell," as the movie columnists like to call her, at the U.S. moviegoing public in her first Hollywood picture-a $2,500,000 adaptation of The Brothers Karamazov, in which, as Hollywood would have it, the first lady of the European screen will be seen in a role (Grushenka) that was originally intended for Marilyn Monroe. Maria Schell has already burst on several preview audiences with a flash that clearly dazzled them, and last week the boys in the executive steamroom were sweating...
...Walls Shook. M-G-M was hopeful that in Actress Schell it had found a dish to tempt the flagging U.S. appetite for films-but was the dish just a little bit too full for the American taste? Director Brooks suggested tactfully that Maria refuse some of those second helpings of Kartoffelklösschen and Sachertorten, and lose a little weight-say, 20 Ibs. Maria agreed, but when she arrived in Hollywood to start shooting, she was as broad as ever. Furthermore, she was dressed like a middle-aged Central European frump. Her frocks were...
...original M-G-M movie Lassie (also male), now retired and blind...
Enter Senary; Exit Mayer. But even Mayer turned out to be vulnerable. In 1948 he startled Hollywood by handing over production of M-G-M films to onetime Scriptwriter Dore Schary. The two soon clashed over the proper themes for the studio's pictures. Finally the old man quit MGM, talked vaguely of again making pictures that "you can take your mother and children...