Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manhattan coach; in New City, N. Y. last month. Miss Talley's first marriage, to Pianist Michael Raucheisen, also her coach, was annulled in 1933. Last week she and her husband were on their way to California, where she has a five-year cinema contract with MGM...
...Scandals, experts estimate that Dancer Powell covers four miles in the course of her routine. She has brown hair, blue eyes, weighs 117 Ib. Her next picture: Broadway Melody of 1935 (MGM...
...California Legislature was considering a 35% income tax that would affect all cinema studios. President Joseph M. Schenck of United Artists, accompanied by wily little Alfred Cleveland Blumenthal, real estate man, boarded a Manhattan plane for Miami. In Miami, Producer Schenck, who said he was also acting for MGM's Louis B. Mayer, proposed that Florida- which recently ratified an amendment exempting cinema companies from taxes for 15 years-should also build $10,000,000 worth of cinema studios by popular subscription, rent them to cinema companies for $250,000 a year. Producer Schenck explained his extraordinary plan...
...Harding and Robert Montgomery. Most unfortunate is the demise of the character Fedyak, that charming cosmopolitan and Bohemian, as played by Edward Arnold, Still, it must be said that snatches of Behrman's intelligent wit remain in the dialogue. But why, oh, why, wasn't Ina Claire contracted by MGM to speak them...
Impressionable Los Angeles was the scene of the most ruthless anti-Sinclair activity. Under what was said to be the guiding hand of Republican State Chairman Louis B. Mayer (MGM), the cinema industry was turning out Stop-Sinclair "news-reels," had even assessed many of its stars for Merriam campaign funds. A united front against Sinclairism was effected by the three big Los Angeles papers, which simply quit reporting news of EPIC and its sponsor. A flood of news-photographs was released locally and to the nation to prove that EPIC was luring an army of bums to California. Their...