Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Woody Herman at Carnegie Hall, 1946 (MGM, LP). Fifteen rowdy and tender numbers played by one of the swingingest bands of all. Herman's 1946 "Herd," for all its size and precision, sounds as flexible as a small jam band...
...success of the first movie in Cinema-Scope did not cause a rush to the Cinema-Scope bandwagon. At MGM, Paramount, Columbia, Universal-International and Warner, 3-D production was lagging. As one studio executive said: "We're playing it down the middle...Whichever way the wind turns the fastest buck, that's the way we'll turn...
Torch Song (MGM) should make a lot of Joan Crawford's fans uncomfortable. Joan is miscast as a belligerent musi-comedy star who wears her heart on her fist; the fist is directed mainly at Michael Wilding. Fortunately, the camera decides most of the time that it is more fun to look at Actress Crawford's remarkable legs. Even this is an obvious mistake, for by reducing a performer of Joan's experience and hard-won skills to the cheesecake class, the picture stints her of the human qualities she has developed. Best scene: one in which...
Died. Lewis Stone, 73, oldtime silent movie star (Scaramouche, The Prisoner of Zenda) turned Hollywood character actor, best known as Judge Hardy in MGM's Andy Hardy series; of a heart attack, while chasing three teen-age vandals from his garden; in Hollywood...
...this business," says Tiomkin, "they begin to follow with these ideas. First Dore Schary called on account of High Noon and said. 'Dimitri, I need song from could be good infantry march.' " Tiomkin wrote Take the High Ground and Hold It for MGM's Take the High Ground. Then he composed the theme for Return to Paradise...