Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, with Paramount, RKO and MGM, dickering for his picture, the Rev. Mr. Friedrich, movie producer and parson too, looked around for a typically U. S. town to test audience reaction to the film. He chose Joplin, Mo., birthplace of Cinemactor Beal...
...Crosby to take over piano duties, Joe Sullivan retiring for another vacation . . . Singer Bob Eberle is leaving Jimmy Dorsey to go with Bobby Byrn's new band. But both will remain with Dorsey for the time being. . . Artie Shaw's huffiness about having to use jitterbug terms in his MGM picture strengthens the impression that he has gone highhat. So do the three law suits he is involved in right now for having made himself generally obnoxious, the worst offence being at the Canadian National Exposition when he arrived three hours late, and upon being gently reminded of that fact...
...Like MGM's previous productions in England, A Yank at Oxford and The Citadel, Goodbye, Mr. Chips makes economical use of local actors, notably 300 students of Repton School who acted as extras during their vacation. Besides Robert Donat, Goodbye, Mr. Chips employs only two performers who are likely to mean much in Hollywood. One is Terry Kilburn, 12-year-old son of a London bus driver, who made a hit as Tiny Tim in last season's Christmas Carol, and who functions in quadruplicate as a four-generation student of Mr. Chips. He is under long-term...
...Louis B. Mayer after he saw her on the London stage, hustled to Hollywood, she was tested for a role in Dramatic School, instead spent her time in California having an appendectomy and weathering a siege of influenza. The flu proved lucky, since Dramatic School was a flop. MGM's present plans for her, barring illness, are, first, a part in Susan and God, then the lead in Myron Brinig's May Flavin...
...comedies of Carole Lombard would be otherwise too tough to take. A night of recklessness and a drunken marriage, with all the usual complications, results in just another telling,--and a too, too giddy one--of an old story. The plot has no excuse except as a vehicle for MGM's big stars, and if the picture is merely a planetarium, it very definitely needs more power in the projector. The film is nothing more than a hodge-podge of supposedly funny scenes with a minimum of continuity. In the opening scene there appears with Myrna Loy a dead ringer...