Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Prosperity (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). If you took any comic strip joke about a mother-in-law, multiplied it by two, added a bank failure, four platitudes about the silver lining, and a vaudeville fox terrier you would have all the ingredients of Prosperity except the one which makes it human and amusing. This ingredient is Marie Dressier, who always impersonates grunting, sympathetic, noisy, witty, violent, immensely courageous old ladies but somehow manages to do it with enough vitality to make them seem alive. This time she is Maggie Warren, a grizzled widow who runs her husband's bank until...
Spirit of Fun was the name of the plane in which Arthur M. Loew, 35, son of the late Showman Marcus Loew and vice president of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was touring the world. With him were his attorney, Joseph Rosthal, and Pilot James B. Dickson, oldtime Army flyer. Last week the party was nearing Johannesburg, South Africa, to attend the opening of a new theatre. At Victoria Falls they started to take off from...
...time between the stages of London and Manhattan, where he has been seen in These Charming People, The High Road, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and last season, with his wife Edna Best, in There's Always Juliet. Edna Best was in Hollywood last year under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; she left to join her husband who was then in no special demand by the cinema. The situations of Edna Best and Herbert Marshall are now reversed. Last month he left Hollywood, whither he will soon return, to join his wife in the London cast of Another Language...
Scarlet Dawn (Warner). Soviet Russia interests Hollywood profoundly. Most of the major producers feel sure that there is a good scenario somewhere in the Five-Year Plan and they are trying hard to find it. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has spent $200,000 trying to do so without success; whatever Warner Brothers spent on this picture can safely be listed on the wrong side of the ledger also. This is the fault, not of Douglas Fairbanks Jr. who acts in the picture and helped Niven Busch Jr. write an intelligent adaptation from Mary McCall's novel, but of a weakness...
Faithless (MGM). Having tried four times without much success to find a satisfactory vehicle for Tallulah Bankhead, whose eyelids have been compared to the fat stomachs of sunburned babies,* Paramount decided to lend her to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and see what happened. Faithless will probably leave Miss Bankhead about where she was before. She has a more full-bodied role than in Thunder Below, Tarnished Lady, My Sin and The Devil and The Deep, and a better leading man (Robert Montgomery). Otherwise, the picture is in the Bankhead tradition, a solemn sexual mumbo-mumbo of wealth impoverished and beauty...