Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pick a Star (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) slapsticks the story of the sweet young girl who makes good in Hollywood. In Waterloo, Kans., pretty Cecilia Moore (Rosina Lawrence) wins a beauty contest managed by her boy friend Joe Jenkins (Jack Haley) only to find that the prize money has been stolen. Chagrined to see her humiliated, Joe journeys to Hollywood to try to land her a film job. But the forced landing of an American Airlines plane at Waterloo gives screenstruck Cecilia her chance to meet Cinemactor Rinaldo Lopez (Mischa Auer), fly out to the Coast with him and her noisy...
...Hoar; George W. Holtzlander; 'Paul E. Himan, Jr.; Walter E. Jenkins, Jr.; Stanley H. Kapner; Bartow Kelly; Walter N. Kernan, 2d.; John A. King, Jr.; Harold E. Kirkby; Gifford Kittredge; Shubrick T. Kothe; Charles D. Lutz, Jr.; William A. MacIntyre, Jr.; Arthur Marks; Harold F. Mason, Jr.; Myron L. Mayer; Francis D. Millet; Alexander E. O. Mussel, Jr.; William F. Murray; Harlan W. Newell...
They Gave Him A Gun (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). "I live for my country and work for it . . .'' says Jimmy (Franchot Tone) in this picture, "but when they order me to travel 3.000 miles to be a butcher, I quit." This is just after he has fainted from disgust during a 1917 bayonet drill and is being revived by his buddy, Fred (Spencer Tracy). At the front, equipped with a high-powered rifle and good eyesight, Jimmy's attitude changes. When luck puts him in a church steeple with a perfect chance to pick off five members...
Most successful Hollywood producer, as usual, last year was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This year, also as usual, MGM convened before its rivals. Pictures about which MGM salesmen heard most in Hollywood last fortnight were Kim, co-starring Freddie Bartholomew and Robert Taylor, and Idiot's Delight starring Clark Gable. Other major MGM ventures will be Girl of the Golden West (Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy) ; The Return of the Thin Man (William Powell and Myrna Loy). Total MGM product will be 52 pictures at the most. On MGM's list but not yet assigned are Silas Marner, As Thousands...
Died. Effie Wise Ochs, 76, relict of Publisher Adolph S. Ochs of the New York Times, mother-in-law of the Times's Publisher Arthur Hays Sulzberger; of heart disease; in White Plains. N. Y. Her father, the late Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise of Cincinnati, founded Reformed Judaism...