Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...right to do the things I do." Cesana reached his goal of TV lover by the usual circuitous route. Jesuit-educated Renzo was precocious enough at 16 to have his first play produced by Roberto Rossellini. He reached the U.S. in 1934 as a writer-actor for MGM, which was then making a series of Italian-language films. He has spent the past 15 years in & out of radio, advertising and publicity. In his few movie bit-parts, he is almost always cast as a priest. As a further comfort to U.S. housewives, he is also whispering his romantic message...
Texas Carnival (MGM) turns Red Skelton and Esther Williams loose in a familiar but cheerful Technicolored antic. They play a carnival sideshow team mistaken for a pair of multimillionaires at a grandiose Texas resort hotel...
...wolf gazed hungrily at the shapely maiden. Then he drooled and howled. But no moviegoer ever saw that scene from MGM's cartoon, Red Hot Riding Hood. Hollywood's censor, the Breen office, which hardly blinks at a human wolf on the screen, turned a prompt thumbs-down on the cartoon version. Last week Producer Walter Lantz sounded off on some other rules of cartoon censorship...
Bannerline (MGM) is a limp little melodrama about a brash cub reporter (Keefe Brasselle) who, to cheer up the dying days of an idealistic teacher (Lionel Barrymore), bestirs a town to clean up its gangster-ridden government. Cast inevitably as a crotchety but lovable tyrant, Actor Barrymore gets a chance to play a deathbed scene which, running intermittently through the whole picture, must be the longest on record...
...signing of her contract with MGM...