Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hallelujah (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Before the end of this picture you get the idea that King Vidor, who wrote and directed it, does not know much about Negroes but that he has guessed and reasoned out a lot. His story, simple yet sophisticated, does not go as deep into the way a black man's mind works as, for instance, Eugene O'Neill went in Emperor Jones. It is a white man's comment on the relationship between sex and religion, a comment in which sympathy and emotion replace the irony so easy to this kind...
...Hollywood Revue (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). This is good-humored, fast film vaudeville, with nice tunes and without a story. There are some new tricks in it. When the master of ceremonies looks for Bessie Love he finds her in his change-pocket; a lilliputian Marion Davies appears with a chorus of giant Grenadiers, later grows up to normal size. During one of the color sequences there is a trick with perfume; the spectators sniff-is it possible?-yes, they smell orange blossoms. Gus Edwards sings "Lon Chancy Will Get You If You Don't Watch Out;" Norma Shearer...
...Last of Mrs. Cheyney (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Frederick Lonsdale's comedy of the woman who gets into society so that her criminal associates can steal pearls depends less on plot and more on dialog than most plays of its type. It is satirical, sentimental, witty. It set, in its season, a new fashion in drawing-room drama. It is as effective as a talking picture as it was on the legitimate stage. Although the manuscript has been followed so closely that if you look sharp you can catch in the picture the momentary pauses that marked the play...
...their trunk. Norma posed for advertisements, worked now and then as an extra. After Lewis J. Selznick gave her a good part in The Flapper she began to get offers from West Coast producers. Now wife of Irving Thalberg, production manager of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, she lives in one of the biggest houses in Hollywood. She yearly wins the Hollywood women's tennis championship, weekly or oftener takes a bath in starched water to preserve her beauty. Once she danced with the Prince of Wales and won a diving contest staged for him. Once she won a medal...
...crystallized. Four secret meetings were held in Hollywood between an actors' committee (Equity President Frank Gillmore, Ethel Barrymore, Paul Turner, of the New York Equity office) and a producers' committee (Winfield Sheehan, Irving Thalberg, Jack Warner, B. P. Schulberg, Joseph Schenck, Mike Levee, Cecil B. DeMille, Louis Mayer). The result was a complete deadlock, but both sides, for perhaps the first time, made themselves clear...