Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Headed Woman (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is adapted from Katherine Brush's best seller. The picture is a quick, caustic biography of an alert, successful strumpet. From her stenographer's desk in the Legendre Coal Company, Lil (Jean Harlow) quickly finds her way into the lap of Bill Legendre (Chester Morris), from there to the Legendre living room where Mrs. Legendre discovers her. Presently, there occurs a scene in a roadhouse telephone-booth which contains both Bill & Lil. Lil says: "You can't get along without me," and proves she is right by marrying Bill when his first...
Huddle (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) contains precisely the amount of theatricals that a college cinema apparently needs in order to exist. But it contains no cinematic collegiates. It is lent unusual authenticity because all the scenes were taken on the Yale campus, because more than the expected number of actual football shots are shown, and because the hero, who is no gentleman, only ties the score in the final game with Harvard...
...director (with Giulio Gatti-Casazza) of the Metropolitan Opera Company, oldtime (1910-13) director of the Chicago Grand Opera Company; of heart disease, in Los Angeles. Lately, until a street car accident put him in the hospital, he had been working in the synchronization department of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Hollywood studio...
When Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer decided to make a picture of Katherine Brush's novel Red-Headed Woman, they thought at once of red-headed Clara Bow, when and if she ended her retirement from notoriety. Last week, now married to Actor Rex Bell, Actress Bow announced that she would return to the screen, but not in Red-Headed Woman. She signed a contract with Fox, calling for a reported $125-$150,000 per picture. The first will be an adaptation of Tiffany Thayer's story about a half-caste girl, Call Her Savage...
Likewise startling was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's announcement of who was to play the lead in Red-Headed Woman: Jean Harlow, with head dyed or wigged...