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Word: mgm (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Yearling (MGM) and Cheyenne (Warner...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Midsummer Box Office | 7/14/1947 | See Source »

...Fiesta (MGM) is tacked together out of Technicolor, leftover story formulas and shopworn lace, to shelter three possible excuses for a picture: music, dancing and bullfighting. The bullring sequences get along without picadors or coups de grace, and apparently the same old company bull is photographed again & again. More stirring is Johnny (Body & Soul) Green's rearrangement of Aaron Copland's El Salon Mexico. Bits of the dancing (by Mexican Star Ricardo Montalban and Cyd Charisse) are more tense and percussive than the brand generally seen north of the border...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Jun. 30, 1947 | 6/30/1947 | See Source »

...Anne (Annie) Geraldine Mary O'Neill, Viscountess Rothermere, energetic wife of the second Viscount (Daily Mail) Rothermere, who organized a "treasure hunt." This was a farewell gesture for some visiting friends-Howard and Tanis Dietz (she is the former Tanis Guinness, of the stout Guinnesses; he is MGM's publicity potentate who originated Leo the Lion). When Anne's Mayfairest guests rolled up (sixish) at the Rothermeres' Warwick House behind St. James's Palace, they found that no ordinary treasure hunt awaited them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: How to Become Extinct | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

High Barbaree (MGM) is distinguished from the usual run of screen romances because it uses some of the elements of genuine romance, and uses them sincerely. Its theme: dreams and ideals, lost and at length regained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Jun. 9, 1947 | 6/9/1947 | See Source »

...Carnival in Costa Rica (20th Century-Fox) and It Happened in Brooklyn (MGM...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Lull | 5/12/1947 | See Source »

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