Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Andy Hardy Comes Home (Fryman; MGM) might well bring the handkerchief industry out of the recession all by itself. For the first time since 1946, Mickey Rooney, now a ripening 35, has dusted off the old studio flats, put them all together and spelled not only MOTHER but all the other ingredients of smalltown nostalgia. It promises to be profitable: the first 15 of the hardy Andy episodes were among the most successful series in movie history, grossing $73,850,000 and making Child Star Rooney the nation's top box-office draw...
...Jake Wade (MGM) is a horse opera of another color. Metro-color is what they call it, and it sure is loud. There is probably nothing more than gold in them thar hills, but to look at the screen, anybody might think there was neon. Still, the Sierra Nevada, in which much of the film was shot, is pretty hard to spoil. Its purple mountain majesties look down in mineral calm upon what is probably the most stupendous avalanche of clichés to roll across the screen since the last major western was released...
...released The Proud Rebel. ¶ Charles Chaplin Jr., 32, and his nine-months-younger brother Sydney appeared with their father in Limelight, have duckwalked away on their own: Sydney plays opposite Judy Holliday in Broadway's Bells Are Ringing; Charles Jr. is a suspicious cop in MGM's High School Confidential. Also in H. S. Confidential: John Barrymore...
...years as five-day-a-week afternoon fare, NBC's live hour-long Matinee Theater, the only daytime color TV show on any network, has launched dozens of new writers and a score of directors, given more roles to actors than MGM. Among its 29 tons of scripts, the show has adapted worthy works ranging from Jane Austen to Emile Zola. As a sheer piece of logistics, it has piled up phenomenal records: it has used 15,243 costumes, 4,203 settings, 210,103 props, and 9,035 gallons of coffee to keep the casts and crews rolling...
...High Cost of Loving (MGM) is a clever little watercooler farce with kitchenette complications. The hero (José Ferrer) and heroine (Gena Rowlands) are a nice young suburban couple. Two cars, no kids, both work-she in a gift shop ("It's For Them"), he in industry (purchasing department). One morning she happily announces that after nine years of trying they are finally going to have a baby. At work he prematurely passes the cigars and takes the joshing. ("Here's a man who has proved that anything can be done if you keep on trying," cracks...