Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nobody knows just what the big shots at MGM were aiming at, but Harvard has got a request. A nice little girl, say twelve years old, slender and vivacious, would go down just right out in Hollywood. Something about a part in the forthcoming "National Velvet...
They had the movie, the right part, and all the rest of the cast. Finally it got so all they needed was a girl. So MGM started looking around Hollywood, but there just wasn't one young filly fit to play the part anywhere out there. Desperate, the press agents screamed for a feminine counterpart of Freddy Bartholomew at thirteen. Nothing doing...
...anyone's interested, pictures and data can be mailed to Jack Mehler, at 1549 Broadway, New York, the release said. And MGM is frustrated as all hell right...
Sophisticated comedy is hardly at home in Hitler's Europe. But it is there, amidst scenes of the suffering and misery that have unfolded since 1939, that MGM has placed its latest effort at well-bred laughs, "Once Upon A Honeymoon." The cast is sure-fire, Ginger Rogers as a Minsky Melter gone broad A, Cary Grant in a reporter part tailored to his tongue-in-cheek virility, and a newcomer, Walter Slezak, as the type of Brownshirted bully that gestapoes himself into disfavor handily. But even these stalwarts are helpless in a plot that ambles from fantastic nonsense...
Katherine Hepburn rarely allows herself to be publicly subdued by anything or anybody. But Hepburn fans can experience the rare treat of seeing MGM's Dorothy Thompson subdued and emotionally thrashed into a passionately feminine woman, or at least a woman, on the U.T. review night screen tonight. In "Woman of The Year" nighty Katie starts as 1941's world-beater, a combination Luce and D.T., but ends most pleasantly as a love-stricken, even cooing bride...