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...Floating Rose. One studio that is less desperate than most is Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer; that is partly because M-G-M has already turned up a jewel of great price, a true star sapphire. She is Elizabeth Taylor...
Louis B. Mayer, party of the first part in many a six-figure contract, had his own option picked up by Loew's, Inc. Presi dent Nicholas M. Schenck, who signed him up to head Loew's-owned Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer for a few more years...
...another good old Metro musical, in turn-of-the-century costume, featuring Van Johnson and Judy Garland. By day Van is an up & coming salesman in a Chicago music store. At night he carries on an anonymous lonely-hearts correspondence with an unknown lady. Judy, a salesgirl in the same shop, is also a lonely-heart. Before they discover that they are writing to each other, a foreseeable number of comic situations have been run through the wringer...
...began in 1924 because Marcus Loew's Eastern theaters needed more films. Neither Loew's own studio, Metro Pictures, nor his friend, Producer Louis B. Mayer, could keep up with the demand. The big chance came when another fledgling named Sam Goldwyn decided to unload his Culver City studio. Loew's Inc. put up $5,000,000 worth of stock for Goldwyn's lot and launched it, under Mayer's supervision, as Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer...
Nature may be fine, but at Metro Goldwyn Mayer, it appears they gotta improve...