Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, the judge was still as welcome in Hollywood as a tarantula at a picnic, but he had finally won an audience with MGM's Dore Schary, in charge of public relations for the Motion Picture Industry Council. He asked Schary for help in lining up meetings with other industry leaders. Schary passed the request along to the council, which decided to take it "under consideration." Meanwhile, on his $9-a-day expense allowance, the investigator could go on contemplating sin without much risk of running into...
...MGM) is a patchwork comedy with some time-tested, surefire slapstick sequences involving lions on the loose. These scenes, dragged in by the heels and worked to the bone, help to bolster a film whose authors apparently never rejected any gag that popped into their heads...
Plotting & Prayers. Within the fortnight, U.S. moviegoers will see the jolt her career has gotten: MGM's Annie Get Your Gun, 1950's biggest, costliest ($3,200,000) musical. The star: Betty Hutton. As something extra, Actress Hutton will pop up as co-star with Fred Astaire this summer in another brightly colored song & dance film, Paramount's Let's Dance. Though Hollywood's box office has been slumping, there are still surefire receipts in a lavish Technicolored musical-and not enough surefire cinemusical stars to go around. As the cinemusical girl of 1950, Betty...
After 30 days of expensive shooting by two directors, MGM's Garland had a nervous breakdown, and the studio had to start again from scratch. Betty sent emissaries scurrying to MGM's Louis B. Mayer, who said: "We'd be silly to give the part to somebody on another lot." But after rummaging around among its own players, the biggest star constellation in Hollywood, M-G-M decided that it needed Betty just as badly as she needed the part...
Nancy Goes to Rio (MGM) works some Latin American backgrounds and tempos into the story of a teen-ager (Jane Powell) who aspires to the theatrical fame already reached by her mother (Ann Sothern) and her grandfather (Louis Calhern). She wins a coveted Broadway role for which her mother believes herself cast. On the way to a vacation in Rio, Jane rehearses it so convincingly in a deck chair that fellow passengers accept her as the character, who is on the way to unwed motherhood. Coffee Tycoon Barry Sullivan falls under suspicion as the man who did her wrong...