Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hell Below (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). The combination of moods in this picture -engine room realism and chivalric romance-could not be a happy one in any medium. It could scarcely be attempted in anything but cinema, which can be immensely graphic and must usually be sentimental. The narrative of Hell Below concerns a young submarine lieutenant (Robert Montgomery) who falls in love with a woman (Madge Evans) whose husband has been unmanned in the War. At first he plans to live with her but the girl's father (Walter Huston), the lieutenant's commanding officer, presently makes...
...muddled, but like everything else in which one of the Barrymore brothers appears it has grand moments. Typical shot: Barrymore telling his wife and children how cut up Gabriel Service was about discharging him. Reunion in Vienna (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) avoids all the obvious pitfalls into which an adaptation of a brilliant stage comedy can easily fall. It remains wise and humorous, retains the air of spontaneity which translations so often lose. People who saw Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne in Robert E. Sherwood's play may be amused by the way John Barrymore makes Lunt's fiercely...
...another Vince pupil, has the soundest technic among U. S. woman fencers. Dark-haired, calm, utterly unromantic, Fencer Locke trains on as much chow-mein as she can eat, never loses her temper in a bout. In her autograph collection she prizes most highly the signature of Helene Mayer, the German Army officer's daughter who won the Olympic fencing in 1928, is now studying in California...
Today We Live (Metro-Goldwyn- Mayer). On the day that she hears her father has been killed in the War, Diana Boyce-Smith (Joan Crawford) makes the acquaintance of an exceedingly tactless young American who has come to England to rent her house. Shortly after she has sent her brother, Ronnie, and her fiance. Claude, off to man a torpedo-launch together on the coast of France, she finds out that she really loves not Claude (Robert Young) but the American, Richard Bogard (Gary Cooper). The troubles that arise from this situation are what you might expect in the first...
...recuperate, MGM's directors announced that Associate Producers Edward J. Mannix and David Oliver Selznick had been elected vice presidents. Irish Eddie Mannix has been an MGM executive since 1924. David Oliver Selznick, son of the late famed Lewis J. Selznick, son-in-law of Louis B. Mayer, went to MGM for a fat salary two months ago. Before that he had been production chief of RKO, for which his last picture was Sweepings (see below). MGM had already appointed another associate producer to fill the Thalberg gap: Walter Wanger, one-time Eastern production chief for Paramount...