Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There is a natural check on the plausibility of Unashamed (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). It is based on a sensational socialite murder case in Philadelphia (TIME, Nov. 23). Edward Allen was acquitted because the jurors felt that a hole in Francis A. Donaldson Ill's side and none in his elbow indicated that he had had his arm raised to strike, hence had been shot in self-defense, and not solely to avenge the honor of Rose Allen. Unashamed omits this angle, justifies the girl and her brother, gives the dead man a bad name but in general keeps...
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (Fox). Somewhat baffled by the problem of making the kind of pictures which cinemaddicts prefer, most producers do not attempt to specialize. Alert cinemaddicts realize, however, that there are a few exceptions to this rule. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer runs to lavish casts. Universal last year was addicted to monsters. Encouraged five years ago by the vast success of Seventh Heaven to believe that simple, sentimental romances of the type which Mary Pickford played in 15 years ago are not yet obsolete, Fox has diligently furnished them. Usually Charles Farrell and Janet Gaynor are hero & heroine. Their...
...Washington Show (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Since MGM's Louis B. Mayer has spent weekends at the White House and was a California delegate to last fortnight's Republican convention (TIME, June 27), it was natural that his company should contribute promptly to the current cycle of political pictures. This one gives Lionel Barrymore a spacious and declamatory role, the sort that suits him best. It is not to be confused with Washington Merry-Go-Round, which Columbia will presently release, although it contains a shot of a carrousel against the background of the Capitol. It is an adaptation by John...
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...considered Reporter Rogers good copy. "It's a mistake about Will Rogers being so rich," wrote he. "John D. Rockefeller Jr., recently in Chicago, is much richer than Mr. Rogers, who if you asked him 'Where is your next million coming from,' would have to answer, 'From [cinemagnate] Louis Mayer, I suppose, but I really don't know. These are terrible times...