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Last fortnight U.S. authors blinked and dived for their typewriters. The biggest cash literary prize ever was offered to book writers. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer announced that, for the "best book of the year," fiction or nonfiction, it would award $100,000 in advance of publication, add 20? for each copy sold above the first...
Lieut. Colonel John Hay ("Jock") Whitney was closing a deal with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer to sell them his 95% interest in Gone with the Wind. Reported price for the four-year-old colossity: $3 million...
Random House's Bennett Cerf gave Lawson and Considine an advance of $7,500. (Considine asked for $5,000.) Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer paid $100,000 for movie rights. Except for the $12,000 from Collier's, which was entirely Captain Lawson's (the magazine paid Considine $4,500), the flyer and the newspaperman divided the book's earnings-two-thirds to Lawson, one-third to Considine...
...years, its heaviest buying in history: 20th Century-Fox paid an estimated $300,000 for The Eve of St. Mark, $265,000 for Something for the Boys; Warner Bros, advanced $250,000 against all profits on This Is the Army, paid $250,000 outright for Dark Eyes, The Doughgirls; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer $260,000 for Without Love. Columnist Leonard Lyons quoted Hollywood's Nunnally Johnson: "All the film companies got together and agreed not to pay less than $250,000 for any play." With gas rationed, Broadway expects a terrific summer. Cracked Walter Winchell: "There is talk that Harold...
...Bataan (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) tries to show a few days in the lives of twelve American and Filipino soldiers and one sailor, as the enemy pushes down the peninsula. The task of Sergeant Bill Dane (Robert Taylor) and his men is to cover the retreat, hold a bridgehead as long as possible, destroy the bridge as often as the Japanese attempt to rebuild it. One by one, through several days of sweat, fever, exhaustion, din and death, the entrenched men fall to Jap action. The last of his group alive, Sergeant Dane stands in a grave which he has marked...