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...movie itself is an utterly blameless attempt to display the faces and figures of a number of models under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. It is also a vehicle for Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly and the average moviegoer has seen the same thing two or three times before. No particular effort was expended in the writing of the script, and the picture vibrates rapidly between the ancient and the inane...
Corwin forsook his $2,000-a-week Hollywood salary from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer because he felt no "burning compulsion" to write what they offered him. CBS, which never had anyone to compare with him, welcomed him back with open pocketbook. They gave him the Tuesday night spot opposite Bob Hope (the best of the unsold time available), and wished him well...
...Hollywood last fortnight the bloodhounds were baying at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's heels. Bounding from ice cake to ice cake, the harassed studio finally made the Ohio shore, stopped only long enough to drop its baby in the river...
...communists, radicals and crackpots." The Generalissimo is urbane, greying Sam Wood, who diluted For Whom the Bell Tolls so that Spanish Fascists became "nationalists" and Spanish Republicans came out like the American G.O.P. His general staff includes Walt Disney, Rupert Hughes, one writer from Republic Studios, and ten Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer executives, faithful minions of Tycoon Louis B. Mayer. Gary Cooper, Hemingway's Spanish Republican hero, ate dinner with them. Hearst papers gave the affair pages of pleased attention...
...vocal innuendo. As a comedian, Morgan can shoot through the yolk of a new-laid egg "without making the hen get up." For this arch archery he gets $3,500 a week-$1,500 less than Comedienne Brice. He also manages to make several pictures a year for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. But when his own show is airborne, he will cost the sponsor $5,000 to $7,000 weekly...