Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...been feeding on music. When his father had friends in for chamber music, Andre sat under the piano and listened. Later he got up and sat at the keyboard, learning to play symphonies in piano transcriptions. He also studied composing and conducting. At 16, he was scoring at MGM-with starlets as well as music. With his second wife Dory, he wrote pop hits. He collected Oscars and money...
...Methodist Huntingdon College and Florida's Rollins College, Cornelia studied voice and piano. Then she slipped into what she calls "my little hillbilly jag." She sang and played guitar, toured Australia and Hawaii with Country Singer Roy Acuff, and wrote and performed two recorded songs for MGM: It's No Summer Love and Baby with the Barefoot Feet...
...Franklin, 79, Hollywood producer and director, whose 1942 production of Mrs. Miniver won an Academy Award for best picture; in Santa Monica, Calif. Franklin began as an actor in D.W. Griffith silent movies, then took a job behind the lens as an assistant cameraman. Ultimately, he became one of MGM's most successful directors (The Good Earth, The Barretts of Wimpole Street...
...affirm, Edwards also has a knack for vivid casting in secondary roles. The Carey Treatment has nice character bits by Pat Hingle as a Boston police captain and Skye Aubrey as a spaced-out nurse. Miss Aubrey is throaty, sexy and the boss's daughter (her father is MGM President Jim Aubrey). Moreover, Jennifer Edwards, who adroitly plays a school chum of the abortion victim, is the director's daughter. Seldom has traditional Hollywood nepotism paid off so handsomely for the audience...
...deeper implications. "There's more energy here," said the younger Parks on his set. "It's a lot more relaxed, more informal. Our crews are smaller and communication is better-most black film makers want to be realistic." Says Hugh Robertson, a black film editor hired by MGM to direct his first movie: "Some of the stories we'd like to make are still too potent for the studios to tackle, but the masses can be educated." Ossie Davis is even more optimistic. "The impact made on American music can be duplicated in film," he says...