Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Although MGM has finally severed the Jeanette MacDonald Nelson Eddy due, owing to the "Sweetheart" fiasco, they just couldn't keep them completely apart. The lovers are now sharing the double bill at Loew's State and Orpheum with a change in soul-mates...
...Henry Borsook and associates* of the California Institute of Technology offered new hope to neural gia sufferers. The scientists knew that vitamin B 1 (anti-beriberi), which is found in yeast and fresh red meats, prevents nerve deterioration. On a hunch, they injected from ten to 100 mgm. of pure, synthetic vitamin B 1 directly into the veins of persons suffering from Tic Douloureux. The injection was repeated every day for six days a week. To the scientists' surprise, after several months of treatment 42 out of 52 patients became practically "symptom free," required no further injections...
...Marco Page and the influence of Dashiell Hammett. His characters first appeared last spring in a spade-calling mystery novel, Fast Company, in which the main victim was poetically conked with a bust of Dante. Last summer Melvyn Douglas and Florence Rice played them first for cinema in MGM's fumigated version. In Fast and Loose, Robert Montgomery and Rosalind Russell show up as the likeliest pretenders to the places of William Powell and Myrna Loy in The Thin Man tradition. For Fast and Loose, Author Kurnitz whipped up a few new fits and starts...
...love with the wrong man, and have quite a time until her exasperatingly benevolent father straightens things out; that Andy and Becky will quarrel and then make up with one of those wonderful cave-man kisses. Realizing that the audience is familiar with the formula they are using, MGM should have introduced some new ideas, if such phenomena exist in California. Instead, the hackneyed plot has been made even more important--and even more unconvincing; the slushy sentimentality is slopped on in gobs; and there is an undercurrent of heavy seriousness that weighs the picture down. Only Mickey Rooney...
...Myrna Loy (MGM...