Word: mccarey
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...particular significance. It was Virginia that ambushed Dick Harlow's team 49-0 at Charlottesville last fall. And although the Cavialiens have slipped a bit since then, a lot of the same performers lined up against Princeton in Palmer Stadium Saturday. Fullback Johnny Pap it was there. So were McCarey, Jones, Weir, Milne, Thomas, Leonard and Barbour...
Other top Hollywood salaries: Director Leo McCarey ($355,426), Producer Walter Wanger ($282,899), Singer "'Dennis Morgan ($261,000), Barbara Stanwyck ($256,666), Lana Turner ($226,000). Actually, the Treasury report for the calendar year 1945, and the fiscal year ended in 1946, did not tell the whole income story. It listed only salaries paid by companies, and took no account of dividends, capital gains or the "collapsible corporations" which have earned many a Hollywoodian (and many a plain businessman) far more than his salary...
...this ill wind, there was some good. It had, at least, blown many of the best directors (Frank Capra, William Wyler, Leo McCarey) out of the ranks of the independents and back into the fold of the big studios. Their talents would help in the troubled times ahead. How troubled would they...
Going Paramount's Way. Hollywood's independent producers have been frightened by the box-office slump and the new British movie tax. Six months ago, Frank Capra's Liberty Films sold out to Paramount Pictures (TIME, May 26). Last week Director Leo McCarey's Rainbow Productions, Inc. made a similar deal. McCarey got $1,000,000 worth of Paramount stock for his 50% interest; another $1,000,000 worth went to his associates, among them Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Hal Roach Jr. Paramount gets the services of McCarey and Norman Z. McLeod plus the future...
...McCarey, director of Going My Way, explained why his hit movie had never been shown in Russia. "I have a character in there they don't like." Bing Crosby? he was asked. "No," said McCarey...