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...Guys and Dolls (Goldwyn; M-G-M...
...stations in major viewing areas, a broadside of some 2,500 recently available pre-1949 Hollywood movies began hitting the TV screen as if it were a bull's-eye. In a blaze of ballyhoo, Manhattan's WCBS began unwrapping its $20 million package of 725 M-G-M films at the rate of two a day. With Clark Gable in Command Decision, the station scored a whopping Trendex rating of 28.4 on Saturday night after 10:30 p.m., then found that even on a Monday enough viewers stayed up past midnight to give an impressive...
...M-G-M Production Chief Dore Schary got the ax last week. Stockholders were dissatisfied because they thought that profits under Schary's eight-year regime had not been high enough (TIME, Nov. 12). What softened the blow for Schary was a $1,000,000-plus settlement to be spread over about ten years. Schary is the fourth Hollywood production boss to go in recent months. The others: 20th Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck, Paramount's Don Hartman, Columbia's Jerry Wald. Schary's ousting put the movie industry's seal...
...M-G-M), John Patrick's Broadway play based on Vern Sneider's novel, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama in 1954. Translated to the screen by Playwright Patrick and Director Daniel Mann, it will probably impress most entertainment shoppers as one of the better comedy buys of the season...
...Nicholas M. Schenck, 74, one of Hollywood's last tycoons, quit the board of Loew's Inc., world's biggest moviemaker (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios, some 170 U.S. and foreign theaters, M-G-M records). A Russian immigrant boy who peddled papers, Nick Schenck got in at the start of the picture business, fought his way to the presidency of Loew's in 1927. Last year, as earnings fell and the threat of a stockholders' proxy fight rose, Schenck moved upstairs to board chairman, later honorary chairman...