Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shipmates (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Robert Montgomery made a name for himself in minor-part impersonations of the jeunesse doree. He had an ability possessed by few other young cinemactors to give the impression, without wearing a heavy sweater or a key on his watch-chain, of having gone to college. Nevertheless, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer decided that his first star role should be that of a sailor, apparently an orphan, in an unlikely story which serves no purpose beyond the unnecessary one of advertising the U. S. Navy. In the improbable and not very amusing incidents which lead to Montgomery...
...tune in and hear "The Globe Trotter" relate his stories in more detail. At newsreel theatres were showing shots of the events thus Globe-Trotted. This ingenious coordination of press, radio and screen was the latest development of Hearst Metrotone News. The reels, distributed twice weekly by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, are prepared in Manhattan but can be modified to include events of local interest where they are displayed. The name of the "sponsoring" newspaper is worked into the radio broadcast and into the title of the film, e. g.: "Hearst Metrotone News . . . The New York American . . . WOR . . . The Globe Trotter...
...mildly entertaining homily. John Boles, whose previous roles have included opportunities for barytone singing, maintains a placid demeanor as Bart Carter. Genevieve Tobin, who has become recognized as the most civilized home-wrecker of the talkies, sparkles pleasantly as Mildred. It's a Wise Child (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). One of the minor stage contributions of the late David Belasco (see p. 28) was this obstetrical little farce, fragile and inoffensive, which deals glibly with a complicated case of mistaken pregnancy. As cinema, the obstetrical aspects are made to seem even more innocent by the writhing cuteness of Actress Marion...
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, wheel-horses of Manhattan's Theatre Guild, Helen Hayes, pudgy emotional actress, Bert Lahr, loud-voiced comic, and Jimmy Durante, long-nosed, button-eyed master of ceremonies who makes up his own gags, will work for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Lunt & Fontanne's first picture will probably be Private Lives...
...their secretaries; hundreds of millions of dollars worth of directors, writers, actors, technicians were re-engaged; resounding phrases were thumped like drums - "banner year . . . ," "greatest ever. . . ." Out of all of which the principal producers promised the following number of full-length films for 1931-32: Fox 48 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 48 Paramount 70 Warner Bros. 35 First National 35 RKO Radio 36 RKO Pathe 21 Columbia 26 Producers do not consider that television will come into contact with films for a long time yet. Paramount believes more pictures should have children in them and more attention should be paid...