Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What! No Beer? (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Most cinemaddicts in the U. S. find Jimmy Durante's exaggerated nose and chronic excitement an irresistibly comic combination. His frozen-faced teammate, Buster Keaton, is an attraction abroad where people cannot understand what either one is talking about. In this picture, misinterpreting radio reports of the election, Durante and Keaton purchase a brewery in the delusion that their enterprise is legal. Fortunately they are so incompetent that they make near beer in spite of themselves; when arrested, they are immediately set free. By acquiring an experienced braumeister, they are soon in dangerous...
...Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). A list of pictures about devoted mothers who, deprived of their children, resort to careers of vice...
...Secret of Madame Blanche puts Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer even with Paramount. Irene Dunne gives a very satisfactory performance as Madame Blanche, who suffers even more acutely than most of her predecessors. When her husband (Phillips Holmes) commits suicide because he is incompetent to support her, her father-in-law (Lionel Atwill) not only fails to send her money but takes away her gurgling child. The child grows up to be a soldier, sets out one night to have a good time. Propelled by laws of coincidence peculiar to stories like this one, he goes to the very cabaret where Irene...
...When President-elect Roosevelt visited California last September, he was entertained by Producer Jack Warner who hopes to make himself the Industry's foremost Democrat, as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Louis B. Mayer has been its foremost Republican. Last week Producer Warner announced that he had accepted, not only for himself but for his employes, an invitation to attend President-elect Roosevelt's inauguration. The Warner party's train, which will go to Washington via San Francisco, Salt Lake City, Omaha, Denver, Akron, McKeesport, New Haven, Bridgeport, and 46 other cities, with 15 or more Warner...
Unlimited--Bradford Simmons '34 knocked out Mayer...