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...Screen. In the last three years, the studios have slashed their contract lists from 900 to just over 300 people. At Fox, where production was cut by two-thirds, there was sometimes not even a fourth for bridge in the steam room. At mighty Metro, where production was halved, a whole wing was closed in the Thalberg (executive) building. Beverly Hills began to look like an abandoned anthill. All through the stylish canyons, For Sale signs sprouted. Hedy Lamarr set a fashion in elegant liquidation when she turned over her whole house to the auctioneer in June 1951. Everything went...
...biggest: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
...guards, with helmets, Tommy guns, gas masks and rifles, were ready in the square. That evening, Communists by the thousands tore loose with stones, iron bars, clubs, broken bottles and metal chairs there and at other salients-the Gare du Nord, the Gare de 1'Est and a Metro station appropriately named Stalingrad...
...Country, looks like The Voice of America illustrated. Featuring a handful of MGM's top stars, including Ethel Barrymore and Frederic March, the movie contains a string of eight vignettes which, for the most part, stress Brotherhood and America the Beautiful. Obviously, this represents an attempt by Metro Goldwyn Mayer to win a medal from some organization or another. Actually, the studio is doing more harm than good. It is much more valuable to show the American people what is wrong with this country than to merely pat them on the back...
Sometime last year Metro Goldwyn Mayer decided that one of its bread-and-butter boxoffice stars was ready for promotion. The Commisary heads gambled well; they gave Van Johnson a good dramatic role, and threw in Dorothy McGuire and Ruth Roman to help him along. The movie, entiteld simply "Invitation," is at the Astor now, and should please all but the most discriminating...