Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Three O'Clock Dinner, Josephine Pinckney's smart, brittle, readable novel about life and love in Charleston, S.C., loped off to what the New York Times termed "a nice start"-600,000 advance copies as Literary Guild choice for October. It also won $175,000 from MGM. Probable star: Lana Turner...
...International the deal was a leg up toward turning Hollywood's big five (MGM, Paramount, 20th Century-Fox, Warner, RKO-Radio) into a big six. It now has distribution guaranteed in the cushy foreign market, and a studio (Universal) in which to make pictures. All it has to do now is to turn out good pictures, and it has a good start in that...
Yolanda and the Thief (MGM) transforms a slender, wide-eyed little Ludwig Bemelmans fantasy into an overstuffed Technicolor musical. Full of candy-box surrealism and extravagant nonsense, the picture is wasteful in many ways, but most notably in its misuse of Fred Astaire's talents...
...Last Chance (MGM International) is a Swiss film about the escape of a handful of international refugees over the Alps from Italy to Switzerland. Based on facts, and cast with real emigres and internees, most of whom had never acted before, the movie has an eyewitness ring, and it elevates one small aspect of the war to a parable of the whole. In working with untrained actors and an untamed landscape, veteran Swiss Producer Lazar Wechsler kept his story skillfully simple, his camera work properly unsophisticated. The result is no Grand Illusion (TIME, Sept...
Weekend at the Waldorf (MGM) is Grand Hotel in modern dress. Hollywood has already earmarked it "pure box office," a term meaning that no matter what happens on the screen, the star-spangled cast is a cinch to make money. This is a very fortunate circumstance for MGM, since what does happen on the screen is not likely to hold anyone spellbound for the two hours and seven minutes that the film lasts...