Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were Director Fritz Lang (M, Metropolis), on his way to Hollywood for the second time; Director Howard Estabrook, who had been in England making notes for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's forthcoming David Copper field; Novelist Hugh Walpole who, as a vice president of the Dickens Society, had signed with MGM's Associate Producer David Selznick to help keep the Dickens novel from "reeking of America." To ship newsmen Producer Selznick functioned as advance agent for an even more distinguished Hollywood prospect: Britain's onetime Prime Minister David Lloyd George.* Producer Selznick. back from a month abroad with his wife Irene...
...Riptide-Produced by MGM Unfortunately typical of the pictures that have been built around Norma Shearer, the much publicized wife of Irving Thalberg who picks her plays and her roles. It seems typical of Hollywood morality that a husband as production manager should constantly cast his charming wife in the role of a loose and immoral woman. . . . We advise strong guard over all pictures which feature Norma Shearer. .. . Protest. . . . Protest...
...trial barristers in all Britain-Sir Patrick Hastings for the prosecution, Sir William Jowitt for the defense. Handsome, hollow-eyed Princess Irina Alexandrovna Youssoupov was suing Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures, Ltd. for damages. She charged that she had been libeled and her character defamed by a rape episode in MGM's cinema Rasputin, the Mad Monk. The courtroom was jampacked by a curious crowd which knew that for the first time the true story of how Rasputin met his death was to be told under oath...
What everyone waited for was Prince Youssoupov's sworn story of the killing of Rasputin. MGM's counsel, ponderous Sir William Jowitt, pieced it together by leading questions and quotations from Prince Youssoupov's book, Rasputin...
...actually to blame TIME, Jan. 8 is guilty of repeating without comment the anachronistical description of Queen Christina (died 1689) reading Voltaire (born 1694). L. SCHILDKRAUT LEE Cowansville, Que. Sirs: VOLTAIRE WAS CERTAINLY PRECOCIOUS BUT HIS PRENATAL WORK HAS HITHERTO REMAINED UNDISCLOSED STOP SUGGEST THEREFORE THAT DISCOVERY BY MGM ON TIME P. 24 ISSUED JAN 8 THAT CHRISTINA OF SWEDEN" WAS ONE OF HIS READERS DESERVES FURTHER AMPLIFICATION UNDER THE HEADING QUOTE NEWS UNQUOTE STOP J. A. M. DESANCHEZ...