Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When in 1936 Producer David Oliver Selznick bought the screen rights to Margaret Mitchell's 1,520,000-copy Gone With the Wind, cinemaddicts jumped to the conclusion that, since his father-in-law is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Vice President Louis Burt Mayer, Producer Selznick would promptly cast two M-G-M stars-probably Clark Gable and Norma Shearer-as Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara. Instead, Producer Selznick shrewdly announced that he had no idea who would play Rhett Butler and Scarlett O'Hara, said he hoped to discover unknown actors for the parts...
...Wife (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) makes it clear that, having twice won the Cinema Academy's prize for acting, Luise Rainer has no intention of resting on her laurels. Eyes brimming, lips twitching and little voice choked with tears,, she goes all out for a third award, this time in the classic role of a belle of New Orleans. Unfortunately for Miss Rainer's aspirations and the entertainment value of this picture, a great deal of cinema film has run through projection machines since old New Orleans was first presented as the epitome of U. S. historical glamor. Nowadays...
...will leave undecided the rumor current for some time that Simone Simon can sing. When trying she produces noises which are not unpleasing but remain unintelligible because she never lets articulation interfere with her famed pout. From time to time, it appears that Robert Young, borrowed from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, will be permitted to get the girl, thus beating out his rival, Don Ameche, on his home lot. This would, however, constitute a serious breach of cinema convention and does not occur. Josette further manifests its veneration for tradition in nothing more clearly than its plot, which...
NEVER TO DIE-Josephine Mayer and Tom Prideaux-Viking...
Compiled by Teachers Josephine Mayer and Tom Prideaux of Manhattan's progressive Lincoln School, Never to Die owes its material to the labors of several generations of archeologists and translators, principally University of Chicago's late, great Professor James H. Breasted. Unique merit of the book is not in its outline of Egyptian history or its use of Egyptian art but in its presentation of the limpidly human chronicles, hymns, love poems, adages, medical prescriptions and fairy tales which make up the world's oldest written literature. A proverb: "If thou art a guest at the table...