Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rogers. 32, onetime ''Deb's Darling''; in Hollywood. Her first husband: Owen Moore. Her second: Douglas Fairbanks. Because hitherto unmarried Bridegroom Rogers had a "sentimental aversion" to being married in the longtime Pickford-Fairbanks home, "Pickfair," the ceremony was performed on the estate of MGM Executive Louis Lighten. Only ten close friends witnessed the ceremony, but the reception at "Pickfair" was attended...
...MGM, Glendale and Forest Lawn patrolmen kept the public well out of sight as 200 of Miss Harlow's friends, relatives and colleagues gathered at the Wee Kirk, whose nave had been converted into a scented bower by $15,000 worth of flowers. Clark Gable,* Miss Harlow's Business Manager Edward J. Mannix, MGM Producer Hunt Stromberg, Director Jack Conway, Cameraman Ray June, Director William S. Van Dyke were pallbearers. Jeanette MacDonald sang Indian Love Call. Nelson Eddy sang Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life. A Christian Science reader-practitioner named Mrs. Genevieve Smith, longtime friend of Miss Harlow...
Most successful Hollywood producer, as usual, last year was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This year, also as usual, MGM convened before its rivals. Pictures about which MGM salesmen heard most in Hollywood last fortnight were Kim, co-starring Freddie Bartholomew and Robert Taylor, and Idiot's Delight starring Clark Gable. Other major MGM ventures will be Girl of the Golden West (Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy) ; The Return of the Thin Man (William Powell and Myrna Loy). Total MGM product will be 52 pictures at the most. On MGM's list but not yet assigned are Silas Marner, As Thousands...
...Prisoner of Zenda, with Ronald Colman, Madeleine Carroll, Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Mary Astor; also Adventures of Tom Sawyer and Nothing Sacred in Technicolor. First and most novel Wanger production will be Vogues of 1938. Most publicized Goldwyn contributions will be The Goldwyn Follies and Hurricane, sequel to MGM's Mutiny on the Bounty. Starting with the Follies, every Goldwyn production will be filmed in Technicolor. In England, Producer Korda's most noteworthy picture on the new season's schedule will be I, Claudius with Charles Laughton and Merle Oberon. Said Producer Korda last week before leaving...
...week's end negotiations were still deadlocked when an I.A.T.S.E. official telephoned the Guild's Founder-Secretary Kenneth Thomson, promised to call a sympathetic walkout of his 30,000 members if the Guild struck. At that, the producers' representatives knuckled under. On behalf of RKO, Paramount, MGM, Columbia, Universal and Twentieth Century-Fox, Twentieth Century's Chairman Joseph M. Schenck and MGM's Vice President Louis B. Mayer squeezed their signatures at the bottom of an agreement to the Guild's demands, scribbled on a sheet of foolscap. Prime points were granting...