Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...attorney in his summation: "She has conducted herself like a lady in court. There has been no wisecracking around here. But this woman, with her God-given talents, has sold her birthright for a mess of pottage." The jury refused to convict her. The Duke Steps Out (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Nonsense about a young student in a California co-educational university who wins the world's light-heavyweight fisticuffing championship and the girl he loves, is made pleasant and almost credible by the acting of William Haines and by Joan Crawford's handsome legs. Best shot: the crowd...
...contest has already received enough publicity so that Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are sending their news cameramen to snap the listeners in action. There was also a possibility late last night that Fox Movie-tone would be on hand to record on a synchronized score the voices of the men and the music, as the phonographs grind...
Wild Orchids (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The increasing sophistication of the picture business is well demonstrated by this story of a foreign prince, a U. S. millionaire, a lady, and a tiger, which has been told before but never so effectively. In the 1914 manner of the cinema, it was a story of marital infidelity as crude and tawdry as its papier-mâché settings. As done in the 1919 epoch, it was a heavy-footed charade, overburdened with its setting. Now, a vehicle for Greta Garbo's disturbing shadow, it moves lightly, even wittily, and the lady...
...Trial of Mary Dugan (Metro Goldwyn Mayer). Once more the unity of time and scene and the concentration of dialog made possible by a courtroom play have been utilized in an effective sound-picture. The story, adapted without alteration from a recent stage success, and directed by the author, Bayard Veiller, concerns a showgirl, who is tried for the murder of her lover and is defended by her brother, a lawyer. Best shot?Norma Shearer telling how she paid for her brother's education...
Last week was announced the acquisition by Cinemagnate Fox of Loew's, Inc., and its producing subsidiary, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures Corp., bringing the estimated value of Fox holdings to $225,000,000. Almost immediately, Fox acquired two additional theatre chains controlling 113 houses: Walter Reade Enterprises (15) and Schine Chain Theatres (98). Total of Fox-owned theatres: nearly...