Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Movieman L. B. Mayer's favored Stepfather finished first in a mad scramble down the stretch in Santa Anita's $50,000 San Vicente Handicap. Then three rival jockeys complained that Stepfather had fouled them in a bumping bee, and for 16 minutes the judges debated. Their decision: disqualify Stepfather, make second place Hubble Bubble the winner...
That, as some Englishmen would say, tore it. For, as a result of that brief encounter, the bigwigs of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer are now immodestly slapping their own backs with the fervor of flagellant monks. They have acquired, little Miss Kerr, and they suspect that she might be the biggest thing that has happened to M-G-M since Greer Garson...
...paid $200,000 for the screen rights to Frederic Wakeman's cross, best-selling novel about radio, The Hucksters; Mayer had thought it would be good for Gable. Gable claimed shudderingly that the hero's flagrantly libertine outlook would ruin him forever as a great lover. The book's big sales and a denatured script brought Gable around. Metro decided to create its own star (Metro can create a star overnight as surely as Hormel creates Spam). Why not Deborah Kerr? But the producer, Arthur Hornblow Jr., was still worried. The Hucksters, he pointed out, is budgeted...
Hiccups are no joke when you have been hiccuping for two months-as Anna Mayer had. Shrunk to a starved 82 pounds, she lay convulsed with racking spasms, 60 to the minute. Desperate measures were called for. The surgeon cut into her neck above the collarbone, snipped off an inch and a half of the right phrenic nerve. Like a disconnected electric vibrator, her convulsions slowed, stopped. "When do I eat?" she asked feebly...
...Open City (Minerva; Mayer-Burstyn; TIME, March...