Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their share of the profits under a contract signed when M-G-M was born of a three-cornered merger. Mr. Mayer and his two partners had turned over all their assets-properties, stars, contracts, furniture, cash-taking no stock in exchange but a 20% interest in MGM's potential profits. Though the two other concerns were losing money at the time, the partners were willing to gamble everything on their ability to make pictures. And they won. An argument later developed about the price Loew's was to pay its producing subsidiary for its pictures. To settle...
...Nice: "The suggestion that I might become an Ambassador is flattering, but running an embassy is an expensive business. Only the wealthy can pretend to such a post." The onetime Mayor declared that after a long rest he would probably represent Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cinema interests in France. Said MGM's President Nicholas M. Schenck in New York: "This is absolutely news to me." Meanwhile a Brooklyn judge appointed a receiver to sequester all Jimmy Walker's property in behalf of his creditors...
...Praskins'. W7hen humiliated into leaving she makes the gesture of committing suicide so that her life insurance will enable the bank to reopen. Wobbling her jaw, protruding her underlip and narrowing her eyes, Marie Dressier somehow makes the crude fable (written by Sylvia Thalberg, sister of MGM's Production Chief Irving Thalberg) laughable and interesting. Most vulgar shot: Maggie Warren finding out that the bottle from which she has been gulping what she thought was poison, contained something else...
Faithless (MGM). Having tried four times without much success to find a satisfactory vehicle for Tallulah Bankhead, whose eyelids have been compared to the fat stomachs of sunburned babies,* Paramount decided to lend her to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and see what happened. Faithless will probably leave Miss Bankhead about where she was before. She has a more full-bodied role than in Thunder Below, Tarnished Lady, My Sin and The Devil and The Deep, and a better leading man (Robert Montgomery). Otherwise, the picture is in the Bankhead tradition, a solemn sexual mumbo-mumbo of wealth impoverished and beauty...
Hollywood knew Paul Bern as an adroit and skilful cinema craftsman. Associate producers generally are not credited for their work, but he was considered largely responsible for MGM's Grand Hotel. Paul Bern came to the U. S. from Germany when he was nine. Educated in Manhattan public schools, he studied further at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts, became a theatrical director, went to Hollywood to write scenarios. His work on The Marriage Circle, The Christian, The Dove caused him to be made an executive. In a community founded upon the assumption that to be blatant...