Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three Wise Men. The cinemoguls are briskly businesslike and determinedly cheerful. Paramount's Henry Ginsberg said last week that the so-called "depression" is largely "psychological." MGM's Dore Schary says with assurance: "We all know what the problems are and what must be done about them." Twentieth Century-Fox's Darryl Zanuck likes to think about the day in the not-so-distant future when television will be an exciting new adjunct of a busier Hollywood...
Come All Ye Faithful. Though fewer pictures are in production, some things are just like the good old lavish days. At Paramount, Cecil B. DeMille is deep in his $3,000,000 Technicolored Samson and Delilah. At MGM, the huge set with swimming pool is kept at a tropically humid temperature for the swimming sequences of the new Technicolored Esther Williams picture (with dance numbers by Busby Berkeley...
Words and Music (MGM) has just the right proportions of garlicky bad taste and more than Oriental splendor which (plus Technicolor) add up to a Hollywood dream of heaven-an M-G-M supermusical. Somewhere in this mixture-as-before is a version of the careers of Richard Rodgers and the late Lorenz Hart, preserved from too much resemblance to reality throughout...
...saber as if he were swatting mosquitoes in a Cuban jungle. Red McNeil had his own little trick. He'd lunge out with a saber and then roll onto his back to escape the counterpunch. It was unconventional and it looked good, even if it was kid stuff for MGM...
...average, cinemogul regards film critics as either free pressagents or costly saboteurs. Even when a bad picture is a box-office hit, the moviemaker resents the critic who has called it bad. MGM, which specializes in movies that the public loves, is particularly touchy about critics who refuse to love its products.* Last week MGM's dislike of unfriendly reviewers had roused all of London's critics to battle...