Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Loew's Inc. (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, Manhattan radio station WMGM, M-G-M records, etc.). Loew's new boss: Arthur Marcus Loew, 58, whose father founded the original theater chain (which by U.S. court order is now a separate company) and merged three fledgling moviemakers into MGM. Arthur Loew attended Alexander Hamilton Institute and New York University ('18), enlisted in the Navy in World War I, found no mogul's job in the family firm when he got back, created the export department that now brings in some 40% of Loew's yearly income...
...Kismet (MGM) on Broadway looked like a Hollywood camel opera; as a Hollywood camel opera, it looks and sounds like the late hours of a Shriners' convention, i.e., fun in an overloaded fashion. Howard Keel, as the poet who goes from verse to better at the Wazir's court, cuts a tolerable fine figure in Mesopotamian laundry, and he sings like a baritone bulbul. Ann Blyth (see MILESTONES) is the girl and Vic Damone the boy. The music is borrowed din from Borodin, and except for Stranger in Paradise, it sounds like routine Tin Pan Allah. The incidental...
...22nd-anniversary issue of the influential trade sheet Variety, MGM's Dore Schary penned a long, freeverse tribute to "the trades." Sample...
...Peace, is over, and the Italian producers, Ponti-de Laurentis (American associate: Paramount), are left with a clear field; Producer Mike Todd has dropped his project, despite a finished script by Playwright Robert E. Sherwood and months of preparatory work put in by Director Fred (High Noon) Zinnemann. (MGM and Producer David O. Selznick quit the race months ago.) The Ponti-de Laurentis movie version of the great Russian novel is being shot in Italy and Yugoslavia, with Audrey Hepburn starring...
...Trial (MGM) turns out to be as tellingly effective an anti-Communist movie as Hollywood has ever made. In a few painfully real scenes, iced with satire, Director Mark (Champion) Robson and Writer Don Mankiewicz have drawn an unsettling picture of just how U.S. Communists adopt and then ambush a "good cause...