Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time a friendly letter came from Authors Nordhoff & Hall. They were mightily pleased to know that he had bought their story, they said, because Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer had made such an admirable job of Mutiny on the Bounty. Samuel Goldwyn has never been connected with MGM...
Performing in the title role of MGM's Badman of Brimstone, Cinemactor Wallace Beery dashed into a frontier set. brandishing a six gun in either hand, tripped, fired a blank cartridge into his thigh...
Wife, Doctor and Nurse (Twentieth Century-Fox) is an amazingly fresh version of the triangle indicated in its tired title. That any plot as old as this (most recent prior use: MGM's Between Two Women) can be given a new dress is a minor miracle of screen technique. It has been achieved by application of the dramatic law which holds that any situation becomes new if the characters involved make it inevitable. Steve (Virginia Bruce) never asked herself whether she loved her boss, Dr. Judd Lewis (Warner Baxter) until the day his young wife Ina (Loretta Young) took...
...doubt it is partly the glitter of its memorable predecessors that dulls this version of MGM's big annual musical. Unhappily and obviously, another reason is the remembered rather than memorable elements in its story: the routine of a leading character leaving home to follow a horse, first used in Broadway Bill (Columbia, 1934); the George Murphy-Eleanor Powell dance in Central Park, the interrupting rainstorm and their going into a pavilion for shelter, all copied almost without change from Top Hat (RKO, 1935); finally, the curious parallel between Star Gazer's reaction to Charles Igor Gorin singing...
...celebrities who have arranged to be buried there when they die. By error, the name of Actor Guy Bates Post, which should have been the first in the last list, appeared as the last in the first. To Actor Post who, hale and spry, is currently on view in MGM's Maytime, TIME'S sincere apologies...