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...Instead of making one $3,000,000 musical, there would now be two for $1,500,000 apiece. As MGM's Louis B. Mayer put it: "You can't overwhelm audiences with mobs and spectacles any more. Intimate pictures are the thing." Furthermore, M-G-M could no longer afford mobs and spectacles. Nor could anyone else, unless the mob included one of the few top stars (Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman and Betty Grable) whose appearance usually guaranteed a profit. Nor did Hollywood think it could film any plots or take up problems that cut deep...
...Johnny Mack Brown. The warden said that he had caught Morgan with 13 dead ducks, Brown with 16; but He-Man Gable had been staggering along with 25 (21 above the legal limit). Nonsense, Gable huffed, he had not shot a single duck. After consultation with an M-G-M lawyer, the warden decided that, on recount, Gable had really shot only six. With everybody (except the ducks) feeling better, the party was fined $200 apiece...
...present, he is partitioned as follows: to M-G-M for two more pictures; to 20th Century-Fox for two; to David Oliver Selznick for three...
...Novelist Esther Forbes, whose Paul Revere won the $500 Pulitzer Prize in 1943, came a gay package of Christmas goodies. A not-yet-published Forbes manuscript won the M-G-M Novel Award. It was worth $150,000 outright, and possibly $250,000 more if the book sales go well...
...Unfinished Dance (M-G-M). Little Margaret O'Brien, a "sparrow" (apprentice) in a ballet theater, has a schoolgirl crush on Cyd Charisse, a promising ballerina. Margaret hates Karin Booth, the premiere danseuse, because she thinks Cyd should have the top ballerina's job. If only something awful would happen to Karin...