Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twin Pistols. After being She in MGM's 106-minute movie that seems like 2,000 years, Dr. No's bikini girl, Ursula Andress, is back in happy Bond-land. But now she has qualified for her own license to kill in a wacky movie called The Tenth Victim. It opens in a weird, cubistic New York nightclub, where Ursula is bumping, grinding and stripping down to her glittering silver and green bikini. A Chinese brandishing a .45 automatic rushes at her, but Ursula is the fastest bra in town. Bang-bang, she has fired her twin pistols...
Tuesday, August 24 TUESDAY MOVIE SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.). Designing Woman (MGM, 1957) starring Lauren Bacall as a fashion designer and Gregory Peck as a sportswriter...
TUESDAY MOVIE SPECIAL (NBC, 8:30-11 p.m.). Never So Few (MGM, 1959) stars Frank Sinatra as a World War II captain in North Burma. To see how M-G-M gets a marble-tub bath scene by Gina Lollobrigida into the film is one reason...
SATURDAY NIGHT AT THE MOVIES (NBC, 9-11:15 p.m.). Trial, MGM's 1955 film about a university instructor (Glenn Ford) who defends a young boy (Rafael Campos) accused of murder...
Undisputed king of Hollywood at the time was Louis B. Mayer, who was convinced that "those Selznick boys will come to no good." Proving him wrong, David left MGM, became a $104,000-a-year boss at Paramount-and married the crown princess herself, L. B. Mayer's daughter Irene. L.B. imperiously refused to greet Selznick at the wedding, though when David at 30 returned to the M-G-M fold, wags quipped, "The son-in-law also rises." It was a canard that was not buried until Mayer's 1957 will, in which L.B. noted that...