Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dress up old ideas rather than try new ones. Now, Harry, 69, and Al, 68, plan to get out of the business altogether. Only Jack, 59, will remain with the company until the new owners find another production boss. A likely successor is Lurie's friend Louis B. Mayer, whose feud with Dore Schary at M-G-M may make him glad to leave when his contract runs out on Sept. 1. Hollywooders think that if Mayer goes in, he may eventually buy Warner's production lot. Lurie hasn't made a deal with Mayer...
Three late entries, David Eldridge, Robert L. Wiley '52, and Larry Mayer of M.I.T. followed the top maidens home. While the pretty dark-haired winner was being photographed in the Winner's Circle, Eldridge and Wiley were dunked in the lake...
...Darryl F. Zanuck, his third Irving Thalberg Memorial Award, for "consistent high-quality production in the last three years" (making a total of nine 1950 awards for 20th Century-Fox); Louis B. Mayer, a special award, for 44 years of pioneer work in the industry...
...performance of his distant cousin, a politically conscious Hollywood owl. The owl, Dr. Owsley Hoot, brainchild of a onetime Disney employee named John Sutherland, is the chief character in Fresh Laid Plans, a nine-minute animated cartoon independently produced by Sutherland and distributed throughout the nation by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
Great Circle, relatively lightly regarded inthe odds (9-1), set a new record for the Maturity: 2 :00 2/5. He earned a purse $144,325 for his owner, $14,000 for his breeder, Louis B. Mayer, and another $14,000 for Willie Shoemaker-all three record figures. Second and third money ($20,000 and $15,000) went to T. G Benson's Lotowhite and Alfred Vanderbilt's Bed o' Roses...