Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Operator 13 (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) shows the Civil War, lately neglected by the cinema, with MGM improvements. These include the Four Mills Brothers; the flower of the Central Casting Bureau cavorting in ball rooms or on battlefields; cavalry charges directed by Richard Boleslavsky (Way of the Lancer); Marion Davies and Gary Cooper, romantically disguised; a spy plot derived from stories by the late Robert W. Chambers...
Most notable were Director Fritz Lang (M, Metropolis), on his way to Hollywood for the second time; Director Howard Estabrook, who had been in England making notes for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's forthcoming David Copper field; Novelist Hugh Walpole who, as a vice president of the Dickens Society, had signed with MGM's Associate Producer David Selznick to help keep the Dickens novel from "reeking of America." To ship newsmen Producer Selznick functioned as advance agent for an even more distinguished Hollywood prospect: Britain's onetime Prime Minister David Lloyd George.* Producer Selznick. back from a month abroad with...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, still the most potent producing plant in Hollywood, had more than David Copperfield and a Prime Minister to ballyhoo. Prime factors in the past success of Metro pictures have been 1) "star-power"; 2) Irving Thalberg. First two pictures on Producer Irving Thalberg's schedule are The Merry Widow, with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, directed by Ernst Lubitsch; and Pearl Buck's The Good Earth for which exteriors have already been filmed in China. Cinemaddicts, who have lately been warned by the Roman Catholic Church's Legion of Decency to cast a suspicious...
...destroying the historical authenticity of the production. To give a few examples: the loan to the Allies, which in the picture Nathan forced from Baring, Metternich, Talleyrand, and Ledrantz, was actually abandoned when Rothschild depressed the market on government bonds; the family's system of branch banking was not Mayer's idea, but that of his brilliant son, Nathan; instead of Nathan, it was his descendant who was knighted, during the Gladstone epoch; the romance between Wellington's aide, Fitzroy, and Nathan's daughter, Julie, and the great friendship of Wellington and Rothschild are fictitious...
...HAPPY JEW-Nat J. Ferber-Farrar & Rinehart ($2). The Marmelsteins lived in the ghetto of a small Galician town, but Papa Mayer worked away at his grocery, traded and saved, brought up his five sons to look down on their orthodox neighbors. Dream of his life was to get himself and family to the U. S. and its Canaanitish but liberal ways. With every step up they moved a little nearer-Vienna, then Paris. There Sons Moishel and Abraham became Marcel and Armand de Belvedere. Son David-Yusel married a rich and masterful girl, departed for points east. Son Julius...