Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...priggish way with timeless vulgarity. London is also out with a spate of Shakespeare-Coriolamis, Othello, Julius Caesar, Richard II-in a series of journeyman readings by the Marlowe Society players, who eventually will press all the plays. One of the most majestically read of the talking books is MGM's Joseph Conrad, in which Sir Ralph Richardson whittles Youth and Heart of Darkness to half-hour slices while preserving their familiarly sea-wallowing cadences: "And on the luster of the great calm waters, the Judea glided imperceptibly, enveloped in languid and unclean vapors...
French Line retired the 31-year-old Ile de France last autumn, sold her to a Japanese scrap merchant named Seichi Okada, who for the last few weeks has been collecting $4,000 a day in rent from Andy Stone and MGM. Finally, on location last week in Osaka Bay, the Ile reverberated with strange commands, such as "Open the barndoors on the broads!"* In the first-class staterooms, a collection of extras as mixed as the strays in a Conrad novel-English girls from Kobe, White Russians, Poles, wives of U.S. marines, a French judo expert-had the maritime...
...MGM) is a passionately sincere, pictorially brilliant, monumentally silly example of how people who are obsessed with the race question tend to see everything in Black and White. In this instance, the audience is asked to believe that when most of humanity has been wiped out by a cloud of radioactive sodium, the three people who have managed to save their skins will spend most of their time worrying about the color of them...
...Mating Game (MGM) is a busy B that crudely tramples among The Darling Buds of May, a riotously ribald novel by Britain's H. E. Bates (TIME, May 26, 1958), and reduces it to a nice, safe, bring-the-whole-family outing in the postcard pastures of Maryland...
...figures most attractive to moviedom's magnates are the seductive black ones in their accounting books. Last week Loew's (MGM) reported earnings of $1.08 per share for the 28 weeks ended March 12, a gain of almost 1,000% over a year earlier. United Artists Corp. announced that it boosted revenues 20% and earnings 30% for 1958 to set new records. In 1959, higher earnings have been reported by Warner Bros., National Theatres, Inc., 20th Century-Fox and Columbia...