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Word: mayer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five and a half hours to run if it ever had been shot. It never was. They made another. Then Selznick made another. In the next year Jo Swerling, Oliver H. P. Garrett, Ben Hecht, John Van Druten, Michael Foster, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winston Miller, John Balderston, Edwin Justus Mayer all had at least a little finger in the scenario. But next to Sidney Howard's work, the bulk of the scripting, as David Selznick admits, was done by David Selznick. He is still very touchy because a shooting script was not ready even by the time that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Talbot G. ("Jimmy") Bowen is a Massachusetts-born ex-doughboy who has knocked around considerably in his 43 years. Before he landed his present job, representing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer pictures in Montevideo, he used to manage the American Club in Buenos Aires. Visitors from the States knew expansive, bouncy Jimmy well. Last Sunday the whole world got acquainted with Jimmy Bowen's voice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Jimmy Tells the World | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...coincide largely with that of these individuals who are perforce vaguely termed liberals. The H. S. U. meeting was but one indication of the fact that these two policies no longer coincide. For this reason it must be doubted whether the previously effective cooperation is still possible. Philip Mayer '43, Member of the Freshman Executive Committee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MAIL | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

Another Thin Man (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Made as a quickie in 14 days by Producer Hunt Stromberg and Director W. S. Van Dyke II, the first Thin Man revealed some surprising facts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 11, 1939 | 12/11/1939 | See Source »

Marx Bros. At The Circus (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) checks the recent decline in Marx Brothers' pictures with two of their fastest, funniest sequences-a riotous Newport society and circus climax, and Groucho doing a combination rumba, tango and nautch dance with one pant leg kitten-ishly hoisted while he sings of his tattooed lost love, Lydia that Encyclopedia...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures: Dec. 4, 1939 | 12/4/1939 | See Source »

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