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...sulky or smiling, he drawls convincingly but never seems deeply touched by the megrims of the "hillbilly Shakespeare" whose reaction to fame is to mistreat his wife (Susan Oliver) and bedevil his loyal manager (Red Buttons). Meanwhile, life flits by with all the tired gimcrackery of a vintage M-G-M musical-stock shots of triumphant headlines, cheering crowds and bestselling sheet music. The only difference is that Hamilton, star of a group called the Drifting Cowboys, is signed up by Grand Ole Opry instead of the Palace. "Wait'll I tell the fellas," he beams, cuing...
...completed in 18 days from start to finish, he was paid $1,000,000. The other two pictures he will make this year are on older, less lucrative contracts, so he will only clear $1,000,000 or so for the pair. "These are Presley pictures," explains an M-G-M studio man who worked on five of them. "They don't need titles. They could be numbered. They would still sell...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.). MGM's 1949 film Battleground, in which Van Johnson, John Hodiak, Ricardo Montalban, U.S. Senator George Murphy and a host of other names out of the old M-G-M stable re-fight the Battle of the Bulge...
...little. Thus David Lean of Zhivago, who had traveled 30,000 miles to find a snowy steppeland for his winter scenes, was assured he need go no further than Soria in the Spanish Pyrenees. "Just like Russia," promised the mayor, counting up the take for the local economy. M-G-M was convinced, built a whole Russian village, a rail line and a river-diverting dam. Only the snows never came, and when Lean went scouting for some, he wound up three feet deep, Jeep and all, in an icy marsh. The scene will be tried again next...
...M-G-M Studios...