Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mutiny on the Bounty. MGM's $18.5 million reconstruction of The Bounty goes bounding along at a great rate for two hours, but all at once the story springs a leak and sinks beneath contempt. Marlon Brando is a sight too cute as Fletcher Christian, but even in disaster Trevor Howard makes a superlative curmudgeon of Captain Bligh...
...starring Clark Gable as Fletcher Christian and Charles Laughton as Captain Bligh. In 1959, figuring that the public was ready to stretch its sea legs again, M-G-M decided to refloat The Bounty. So the wind blew and the fish flew, and by the time MGM's weary crew got back from Tahiti it had used up two directors (Carol Reed and Lewis Milestone), a dozen scriptwriters, one year and $18.5 million...
...couple of fine young girls," said the man from MGM. "You are perfect examples of the American girl-honorable, honest and forthright." In Hollywood such praise usually ends with "Now go home to Iowa." But the Churchill sisters were delighted. Reba, 29, and Bonnie, 26, were already home; they are old hands in Hollywood. In a town that makes a business of manufacturing dubious glamour, they have made a virtue of pink-scrubbed cheeks and moral beauty. They have also packaged their wholesome views into a weekly column that is carried by 270 papers in the U.S. and abroad. Last...
...people stare at him as if they saw on his face "the leer of a sex-mad ogre, and worse, far worse, the bloated, unnatural look of the crass commercialist." In his latest example of sincere sex, for which he has already received $320,000 from his publisher and MGM, Wallace has sportingly given himself a heavy handicap: his subject is the men and women who win the Nobel Prize, but Wallace's intellectual giants have feet of such soft clay that they find it difficult to stay upright for longer than a chapter...
...folk festival also stars Jackie Washington, Josh White, Jr., MGM's New College Trio, and the Charles River Valley Boys from Club...