Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somehow faintly comic. Lieut. Jake Adler, who commands LST 1826 as it bobs between Naples and Anzio during World War II, is an easygoing skipper who runs an exceedingly loose and happy ship. All the 99 officers and men aboard could have stepped right out of an old MGM movie. In fact, after a while, the reader begins to wish that a Mr. Roberts would appear to toss the captain's palm tree overboard, or that Skipper Adler would start rolling a couple of ball bearings in his hands...
BORN FREE (MGM). Composer John Barry believes that "every film score should be able to stand on its own two musical feet-with or without the picture," and he proved it with his From Russia with Love, Goldfinger and Thunderball soundtracks. His Born Free should stand on all four...
Tuesday, July 19 TUESDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11 p.m.). MGM, which in its golden years brought forth Boys Town and Andy Hardy and Goodbye, Mr. Chips, saw a new vision in 1960, called it Where the Boys Are. The town was Fort Landerdale, and one of the boys was George Hamilton...
Mellowness and maturity have come to that jack-of-all-musical-trades, Andre Previn. He is 37 years old, and it is hard to believe that he was about half that age when MGM in 1948 assigned him to compose, score and direct the music for a $3,000,000 Jeanette MacDonald movie. Since then, he has plucked four Oscars for scoring Gigi, Porgy and Bess, Irma La Douce and My Fair Lady. Now Previn is changing, and so is his career. "The boy-wonder thing is over," he mused last week. "I have decided to concentrate on conducting...
With Wife Dory, a former MGM lyricist, he is committed to write an 18-song musical score for Goodbye, Mr. Chips, a movie starring Richard Burton. And he will score two films, The Graduate and Catch-22, directed by his close pal Mike Nichols. Previn figures that he can do all this with half of one hand, while bearing down on stage, podium and recording studio. "Now, at least, I am responsible for my own mistakes," he says. "It's better than all those years when I was going from Lassie to Debbie Reynolds." Of course, between the dogs...