Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West Coast radio stations and a precious Los Angeles TV permit. Paramount already owns two stations, is bidding against 20th Century-Fox for a San Francisco channel. Twentieth Century-Fox announced that it will now also produce films specially for television. Only two major studios (MGM, RKO Radio) still hang back. "The whole industry," said one film maker, "is either jumping or jumpy...
...interview were kept waiting an hour, then given a gentle but swift brush-off. "Probably the . . . most humiliating press conference ever held in Britain," the British Press Association called it. So the honeymooners tried again, with Scotch & soda and smiles. One paper quoted Lana's apology: "MGM loused it up." She denied using those words, but added: "They do sound rather American...
Homecoming (MGM) features Clark Gable as an army surgeon named Ulysses and Lana Turner as an army nurse called Snapshot. At first they don't like each other at all, but after she has helped pull on his rubber gloves a few times, they begin to feel different...
After a good look at the purchase, the studios involved (Liberty Films and MGM) had corporate nausea. The satirical carnage involved, and might antagonize, every major force in the nation's political life. Luckily, the movie was being made by a cinemagician who could turn bludgeons into lollipops-Producer-Director Frank (It's a Wonderful Life) Capra...
...Daughter (MGM) dilutes the never-too-potent subacids of J. P. Marquand's socio-political satire into the sort of eyewash that is the chief ingredient of every "woman's picture." Marquand fans may be surprised at how easily the acid lost its effect; most moviegoers are sure to blink unhappily at what is left...