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Word: mgm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...alarm. It seemed that Tyrone Power, in Rome, had hung up on Lana Turner when she telephoned him from Manhattan. "Lana walks around the Reservoir at Central Park at night," Elsa went on nervously, "sometimes until 2 or 3 in the morning. This is a real tip to MGM, which has a valuable star in Miss Turner and should watch after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Dec. 1, 1947 | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...kept busy ignoring rumors. In Washington last week, she was back on the screen-thanks to the Thomas Committee's anti-Communist inquiry. At the hearings M-G-M had been criticized for making Song of Russia (1944), a wartime boost for America's Red ally. MGM's comeback was a reissue of Garbo in Ninotchka (1939), a picture that kids the pants off Bolshevik commissars. As soon as prints are ready, Ninotchka will be re-released in most of the nation's larger cities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 17, 1947 | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

...Louis fast." She went to California at 17 to teach diving, but made a bigger splash on the air, with the Mills Brothers, and later with Fred Waring. She had a radio program of her own, the Kay Thompson Festival, before ending up at MGM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Dizzy-Making | 11/10/1947 | See Source »

...MGM, said he had three alleged Communists still on his payroll. He named .them as Stewart, Trumbo and Lester Cole...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CONGRESS: From Wonderland | 10/27/1947 | See Source »

...greatly since those early days of Mother Goose (whose rhymes are still the No. 1 sellers). The accent now is on handsome $3-and-up albums, which many a parent has found surprisingly entertaining. Samples: Decca's album with Ginger Rogers as Alice in Alice in Wonderland, and MGM's gentle satire on big business, The Bear That Wasn't, with Comedian Keenan Wynn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMUSEMENTS: Kid Stuff | 10/20/1947 | See Source »

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