Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have Lana Turner and Clarke Gable in the same picture, with a big battle on the Bataan peninsula to go with it, and Turner and Gable clinch more often in two hours than two stumblebum pugs in a six-round fight, MGM thinks you have something. And so does the audience...
...Poor MGM hasn't made a decent musical in years, and "Hattie" is no exception. Thanks to the Hays Office little remains of the original Broadway hit. Ann Sothern's modest attempts to imitate Ethel Merman's exuberance are completely frustrated by thoroughly bad direction; an incredibly obnoxious little girl named Jackie Horner should have been left in a corner; and Cole Porter's score, one of his poorest, is hampered by the addition of even worse numbers. The only relief from the tedium is Virginia O'Brien, with more material and less dead-pan, and Lena Horne, whose rendition...
...after he arrived home on a Norwegian freighter a friend called, asked: "Do you remember Annalee Whitmore?" At Stanford she had worked on the college paper with him. Now a scriptwriter for MGM, she wanted help to get a passport to China. Jacoby spent a week wire-pulling, announced one day to his mother: "That girl's damn smart." She got the passport and a publicity job in Chungking. Jacoby went on his way to Chungking by Clipper, was hired by TIME. Once after a bad air raid he wrote to discourage her coming, saying Chungking was no place...
Already the criticism has had its effect. Nicholas Schenk, president of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, has announced that Ayres will never get his job back with MGM. And since Metro is a subsidiary of Loew's, Inc., which controls almost half of the country's movie houses, it is not hard to predict that attitude of at least a large proportion of the country's theatre-owners in regard to exhibiting Ayres's films. Moreover, it is probable that what few managers have the courage to show his pictures will meet with a stiff boycott, arising not from spontaneous public opinion...
...suspect that the inscrutable Ethel Vance counted upon Mr. Louis B. Mayer to read, and approve of, "Escape." The story of a woman's rescue from a Nazi concentration camp was bound to fit in beautifully with Hollywood's new taste for social significance; and filmed with the inimitable MGM touch of authenticity, it could not miss its mark. It did not, but neither did it displace "The Mortal Storm" as by far the most credible and exciting Nazi-blaster ever flashed across the American screen...