Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...World as a theme for "The Secret Heart," "there are three things you cannot hide--love, smoke, and a man riding on a camel." According to a waggish U.T. aisle-sitter, there is a fourth--the relation of this proverb to the rest of the picture. At any rate, MGM has beaten together another Freudian free-for-all combining misunderstood childhood and the Navy's views on darning socks in so mangled a melee that even the participating psychiatrist doesn't know all the answers...
...dancing the Big Apple in a patched-up farmhouse. The misunderstood Miss Allyson and her confused stop-mother, Claudette Colbert, also try hard, but the highlight of the picture is a novel toy that spells out "I love you" whenever somebody spins it. This intriguing device again proves that MGM can always dig up something entertaining--even though it's not always a movie...
...MGM's challenging roars were not enough, other film-makers were thinking of getting into the record business too. And there were whispers in Chicago that Sears, Roebuck, which only recently has started marketing its own discs through a record-of-the-month club, had a low-priced wire recorder almost ready to go. All platter-makers, including newcomer MGM, were keeping their fingers crossed-and their researchers busy...
...Till the Clouds Roll By and The Yearling (both MGM...
...Beginning or the End (M-G-M), the first full-length movie to grapple with the atom bomb, was given its title, inadvertently, by Harry Truman. When the picture was proposed, the President (as well as MGM's pressagent can remember) remarked: "Make it a good movie. . . . This is either the beginning or the end." The M-G-M boys undoubtedly did their best, under great difficulties; but, also undoubtedly, they didn't make a very good movie...