Word: mca
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then in the 1950s, his vocal cords abruptly hemorrhaged. MCA, the giant talent agency, dropped him. Eventually he sold himself (though some say the mob helped) to Columbia for an insulting $8,000 to play Maggio in From Here to Eternity. That won him the Oscar for best supporting actor of 1953. The top again: $4,000,000 to $7,000,000 a year. By then he had left his first wife, the former Nancy Barbato, and had chased, married and been divorced by Ava Gardner. "I like broads," he said, and not a few photographers got punched out trying...
...Henry, vice president of MCA, concurs: "The old film styles will be popular again. There will be warm, pleasant love stories?if they can find the people to play them. One of the problems in doing love stories is that there are no Tyrone Powers and Ava Gardners. There is a need to get some nicer-looking people...