Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Clown (MGM) is a remake of the 1931 success, The Champ, in which Wallace Beery played a broken-down prizefighter and Jackie Cooper his worshipful young son. In this version, Red Skelton plays a broken-down funnyman with Tim Considine as the youngster...
...Beautiful (MGM) are a gaudy assortment of film folk in a movie about the movies. There is a ruthless Hollywood producer (Kirk Douglas), who is bad; an alcoholic actress (Lana Turner), who is beautiful; a hard-working director (Barry Sullivan) and a Pulitzer Prizewinning author (Dick Powell), who are neither bad nor beautiful...
Above and Beyond (MGM) dramatizes the atom-bombing of Hiroshima...
...process that fascinated audiences is called Natural Vision, a new twist on the old stereoscope and on MGM's 1937 two-reel "depthies." Two projectors throw separate images on the screen. The light of each image is polarized, i.e., filtered so that it "vibrates" in only one plane, at a right angle to the other image. Wearing glasses fitted with polarizing lenses (furnished by the theater management), the viewer sees a different picture with each eye; his brain combines the images into a three-dimensional picture...
Million Dollar Mermaid (MGM) is a splashy musical that casts Cinemermaid Esther Williams as Annette Kellerman, the foremost amphibian attraction of the early 1900s. The picture takes Annette, who is described as "half woman and half fish," from Sydney, Australia to London, where she makes a much publicized 26-mile swim down the Thames; then to the New York Hippodrome, where she is billed as a diving Venus in tank extravaganzas; and finally to Hollywood, where she is badly injured during the filming of an underwater picture. For romance, there is a conventional (and fictional) triangle involving the Hippodrome...