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Word: mgm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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Once the designer for Los Angeles' swank Bullock's-Wilshire store, Irene, who is married to Hollywood Writer Eliot Gibbons (brother of MGM's art director, Cedric Gibbons) went to M-G-M in 1942, where she heads a staff of more than 200. She will now cut down her M-G-M designing to eight or ten major pictures a year, delegate the rest to her assistants. MGM, anticipating profitable publicity tie-ins from the department stores, is entirely happy about the setup...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FASHION: Irene, Inc. | 8/25/1947 | See Source »

Just one painting held the crowd momentarily. Ivan Le Lorraine Albright's pustulant portrait of Dorian Gray, painted for MGM's movie of Oscar Wilde's novel, stared arrestingly from under a strong spotlight. To keep calloused fingers off moldering Dorian, he was surrounded by a low grey fence. Blurted one housewife, after minutes of careful study: "Anyway, you can tell he's English." The man who painted the sorry sight had also contributed a lithographic Self Portrait (which won $50). It was better-dressed but no better-fleshed than Dorian. "That fellow," confided one bemused...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: State Fair | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...impromptu off-the-air cracks show no sign of weakening under the pressure of his new venture. When he recently saw MGM's apologetic version of the radio-baiting novel The Hucksters, he remarked in the theater lobby: "This is the greatest exposé of the movie industry I have ever seen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Partygoers1 Wit | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...Dear Ruth (Paramount) and The Hucksters (MGM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Box-Office Doldrums (Cont'd) | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

...Fiesta (MGM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Box-Office Doldrums (Cont'd) | 8/18/1947 | See Source »

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