Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cinemaddiction to strong drink are the Fitzgerald stock in trade. Ebb Tide provides several "firsts": It is Technicolor's first sea story; Viennese Oscar Homolka's first Hollywood vehicle; blonde Frances Farmer's first appearance in a sarong. Navy Blue and Gold (Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer). "As long as you wear the navy uniform," says old grad Lionel Barrymore to the football squad in Navy Blue and Gold, "nobody cares greatly whether you win or lose. But Navy cares greatly how you play the game." How they play the game in this film, under the hipper-dipper...
...remarkably good state show saves the evening from being a total wash-out. Twelve diving beauties of the Lottie Mayer Disappearing Water Ballet submerge themselves in a fascinating manner; Hal Le Roy taps far better than it has been Boston's privilege to enjoy for some time, and three unknown young ladies throw themselves all over the stage with amazing abandon...
...Last Gangster (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) finds swart, satchel-mouthed Edward G. Robinson. Hollywood's personification of the big, bad racketeer, still doing business at the old stand...
Associate Producer Hulburd bought Hurricane for $60,000. In due time a friendly letter came from Authors Nordhoff & Hall. They were mightily pleased to know that he had bought their story, they said, because Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had made such an admirable job of Mutiny on the Bounty. Samuel Goldwyn has never been connected with...
Conquest (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). For several years Greta Garbo has been toying with the notion of doing a screen play based on the love affair between Napoleon Bonaparte and Marie Countess Walewska of Poland. The notion was in the Hollywood tradition, for most producers like royal historical episodes for an important star. They give the star dignity. If dignity is its purpose, Conquest admirably succeeds. It moves with the fateful and august tread of history itself. Its huge, expensive panorama (running time: 2½ hours, cost: $2,000,000) embraces a quarter of a century and three-quarters of Europe...