Word: mayers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Random House's Bennett Cerf gave Lawson and Considine an advance of $7,500. (Considine asked for $5,000.) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid $100,000 for movie rights. Except for the $12,000 from Collier's, which was entirely Captain Lawson's (the magazine paid Considine $4,500), the flyer and the newspaperman divided the book's earnings-two-thirds to Lawson, one-third to Considine...
...heaviest buying in history: 20th Century-Fox paid an estimated $300,000 for The Eve of St. Mark, $265,000 for Something for the Boys; Warner Bros, advanced $250,000 against all profits on This Is the Army, paid $250,000 outright for Dark Eyes, The Doughgirls; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $260,000 for Without Love. Columnist Leonard Lyons quoted Hollywood's Nunnally Johnson: "All the film companies got together and agreed not to pay less than $250,000 for any play." With gas rationed, Broadway expects a terrific summer. Cracked Walter Winchell: "There is talk that Harold Ickes...
Bataan (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) tries to show a few days in the lives of twelve American and Filipino soldiers and one sailor, as the enemy pushes down the peninsula. The task of Sergeant Bill Dane (Robert Taylor) and his men is to cover the retreat, hold a bridgehead as long as possible, destroy the bridge as often as the Japanese attempt to rebuild it. One by one, through several days of sweat, fever, exhaustion, din and death, the entrenched men fall to Jap action. The last of his group alive, Sergeant Dane stands in a grave which he has marked...
...Barry Was a Lady (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is the Hollywood version of Songwriter Cole Porter's tuneful Broadway dream about the Court of Louis XV. The Broadway dream was lively enough to wake anybody up. The Hollywood dream is all too easy to sleep through. Broadway offered the team of Bert Lahr, Ethel Merman and Betty Grable, with a good grade of gents'-room humor. Hollywood substitutes Red Skelton, Lucille Ball, and Virginia O'Brien, with vulgarity from the lesser lavatories...
...always content with the original lines, the writing staff has made alterations as necessary, and several revisions have been so successful that Paramount and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer have requested HDC scripts...