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...fight raged around Novelist E. (for Eileen) Arnot Robertson, who in 1946 was dropped as BBC's film critic after M-G-M charged that her reviews were "unnecessarily harmful." Because the movie company publicized its complaining letter to BBC, Miss Robertson sued for libel and slander and collected $6,000 damages (TIME, July...
...year later M-G-M persuaded a higher court that its letter was merely "fair comment," innocent of "malice." The court, reversing the decision, confronted Critic Robertson with a bill for $20,000 in costs -and her colleagues with the alarming possibility that they hold their jobs only at the pleasure of movie producers...
...distribute movies, one to operate RKO theaters. Both would be owned by the present stockholders (Hughes, with 24% of the outstanding common, is the biggest). Since that seemed like just another name for the same thing, the other members of the Big Five-Paramount, Loew's Inc. (M-G-M), Warner Bros., 20th Century-Fox - watched hopefully to see whether Hughes could placate the trustbusters that easily...
When offers came, he demanded to see scripts. M-G-M showed him a few, but nothing that interested him. He made a test for another producer, who greedily insisted on a long-term contract, then threatened to have Clift blackballed for refusing to sign...
Julia Misbehaves (M-G-M). During the amatory hurly-burly of World War I, Julia (Greer Garson), a hoy-de-hoyden of London's music halls, marries a landed gent (Walter Pidgeon). They break up before long and, for their child's sake, Julia nobly awards the father 100% custody. The years go by, and Julia, now a middle-aging tramp, gets an invitation to her daughter's posh wedding...