Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Instead of making one $3,000,000 musical, there would now be two for $1,500,000 apiece. As MGM's Louis B. Mayer put it: "You can't overwhelm audiences with mobs and spectacles any more. Intimate pictures are the thing." Furthermore, M-G-M could no longer afford mobs and spectacles. Nor could anyone else, unless the mob included one of the few top stars (Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman and Betty Grable) whose appearance usually guaranteed a profit. Nor did Hollywood think it could film any plots or take up problems that cut deep into contemporary...
Divorced. David Oliver Selznick, 45, Hollywood producer (Gone With the Wind); by Irene Mayer Selznick, 39, Broadway producer (A Streetcar Named Desire), younger daughter of Hollywood Producer Louis B. (MGM) Mayer; after 17 years of marriage, two sons, 2½ years' separation; in Los Angeles...
...upholstered cellars came Funnyman Danny Thomas to make his big pitch at radio. What with his howling nightclub fans and his recent success in MGM's Unfinished Dance, his pink stucco Hollywood house and his red Lincoln, Thomas is already so well equipped that he is not too nervous over the success of his new radio show (Fri. 8:30 p.m., E.S.T., CBS). On the air last week, radio listeners lost some of the Thomas appeal that nightclubbers admire: the calflike face, the eloquent hands, the prehensile nose ("If you're going to have a nose," he challenges...
...Bozo the Clown series; Peter Lind Hayes' Genie, the Magic Record (Decca); Sterling Holloway's Uncle Remus Stories (Decca); The Little Engine That Could (Victor); Dinah Shore's Bongo (Columbia). Older kids can hear Lionel Barrymore's reading of Dickens' A Christmas Carol (MGM) or shiver to Basil Rathbone's Oliver Twist (Columbia...
Katharine Cornell is competent and lively as Cleopatra, but hardly right: she seems conscientiously rather than constitutionally wily and sluttish. Marc Antony is played by English Actor Godfrey Tearle (whose close resemblance to F.D.R. won him the role of the U.S. wartime President in MGM's atom-bomb movie, The Beginning or the End). As the ablest Roman of them all brought low by middle-aged lust, Tearle is brilliantly effective...