Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...After 23 years as MGM's top star, He-Man Clark Gable, 53, wound up his current contract with the studio, waved, goodbye to his friends, and drove off for a vacation. After that, he will make pictures as a freelancer. Also leaving the lot, after 16 years: Greer (Mrs. Miniver) Garson. Coincidentally, MGM, ready to celebrate its own 30th anniversary, announced that it would shut up shop, after finishing several current pictures, to prepare for its next production list...
...MGM) is the same salt solution, give or take a pinch, that the movie public has been contentedly gargling since Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). There are Robert Taylor and the usual miniature whale, the mutiny on the blood-slopped foredeck, the bad harpooner called Silva. the nice native girl (Betta St. John) and the sunken treasure-in this case so palpably a ball bearing that audiences may wonder why all the actors believe it to be a large black pearl...
When all is over, however, one last dilemma remains: what is MGM going to do with all those plaster busts of Louis Calhern...
Other big moneymakers for the year-Shane, The Robe-showed up on a few other "best" lists. The National Board of Review picked MGM's Julius Caesar as the No. 1 film. The remainder of the national board's top ten: Shane, From Here to Eternity, Martin Luther, Lili, Roman Holiday, Stalag 17, The Little Fugitive, Mogambo, The Robe...
...MGM's production of The Student Prince went before the cameras after a two-year delay precipitated by the temperamental walkout of pudgy Tenor Mario Lanza. The film will star British Newcomer Edmund Purdon, no singer, who will act out the songs, with gestures, to the sound-track voice of Lanza, who recorded the songs before he left the studio. Said Actor Purdon: "When I first heard [Lanza's recording], I thought it was full of excesses and a bit hammy. He sings as if he were in perpetual ecstasy. Then I realized how good that is because...