Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rome, Boxer-turned-Cinemactor Buddy (Jacob Jr.) Baer, hulking (6 ft. 6½ in.) brother of ex-Heavyweight Champ Max Baer, came out second best in a tussle with the King of Beasts. Passing by a lion's cage on the set of MGM's Quo Vadis, Buddy scarcely had time to duck when a big paw shot through the bars, ripped his shirt from shoulder to waist, clawed an inch-deep gash in his left...
...Next Voice You Hear (MGM) belongs to God, broadcasting on the radio (all networks and local stations) to an errant world. The Voice's effect on an average U.S. family makes an inspirational little fable, shrewdly manipulated to warm moviegoers' hearts. Almost sure to receive both cheers and sneers, the picture fully merits neither. Simpleminded, ploddingly earnest, sometimes awkward and dull, it is less intriguing than its idea. Yet it is also more wary of the subject's pitfalls than might be expected...
Vadis is a project no U.S. movie company has ever before attempted. After figuring the odds, MGM's Louis B. Mayer anted up $6,000,000, the biggest budget in movie history, and dispatched ace Production Man Henry Henigson to Rome with orders to prepare the ground...
...size and glitter, "the biggest picture of all time" was not stirring the expected commotion in Rome. The staggering preparations and frantic bustle out at MGM's "Hollywood on the Tiber" were only mildly amazing to modern Romans. In the wineshops, the talk was of the women telephone operators out at Cinedtta who these days answer with a cheery: "Good morning. Quo Vadis...
Annie Get Your Gun, of course, stands or falls on its Annie. The rest of the cast, from Buffalo Bill to Chief Sitting Bull, is perfectly adequate. The miscellaneous Indians, cowboys, etc., who comprise the cast of thousands, are too numerous. Dear old MGM could simply not resist the temptation to stage a spectacle...