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Poor combat-fatigued 20th Century-Fox may lose The Battle of Leyte Gulf. The studio needs an obsolete cruiser, an obsolete flattop and two obsolete submarines with deck guns. The Pentagon has refused to help with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's Follow the Boys, even though M-G-M agreed to take out a scene that shows an admiral getting seasick. The Pentagon is, by and large, against comedies...
Posters showing her legs were once banned from the Paris metro-too tantalizing to straphangers-so when unfading Marlene Dietrich, 57, turned up to show her classic calves for real, the Olympia music hall bulged with appreciative Frenchmen. With the old seductiveness, she caressed 18 songs a night, but drew the heartiest oo-la-las when, turned out in top hat, tails-and bare legs-she did a few coltish kicks. A grateful management held her over an extra week, and grateful admirers despoiled acres of rose gardens to pay her floral tribute...
John Houseman, 59, producer for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, is paid more than $100,000 a year, but he moonlights. Often working at his other job until dawn, he drives home to his beach house in the Malibu colony, bathes, shaves, and returns to M-G-M by 9 a.m. For that sort of self-punishment he gets perhaps another $1,000 per year, but with it comes the satisfaction of shaping one of the most creative organizations in the American theater...
...fighter pilot who boasts of his membership in the John Birch Society, charged that Charter Government's city manager system was part of a plan launched by the National Municipal League (a thoroughly respectable association of U.S. civic leaders who work for such reforms as urban renewal, Metro government and modern budgeting) to further "the aims of internationalism and Communism." Hanner added that the league was "uninformed about Communism." At a press conference, a reporter asked if Hanner meant to include Senator Goldwater, who is a regional vice president of the league. The answer: "I believe every single...
When the film capital shifted from New York to Hollywood, Hearst arranged for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to pay Marion $10,000 a week in return for her talented services-and Hearst publicity for M-G-M films. For Marion, Hearst constructed on the M-G-M lot a 14-room, $75,000 mansion, calling it the "Bungalow." Goodhearted, free-spending Marion dispensed Hearst's money with a generous hand, soon became the most popular actress at the studio, paying doctor bills for office boys, distributing expensive gifts to grips and electricians, even paying a studio newsboy's tuition...