Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Movie music should ideally act as an 'emotional constipator or cathartic" to enhance the creation and release of dramatic tension, John Green '28, former director of music for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), last night told an audience of about 50 people...
Green defended the "Hollywood Sound" he created by calling it "simply the incredible concentration of virtuoso musicians, orchestrators, composers and conductors at MGM." He demonstrated its variety with contrasting soundtrack excerpts...
...circle. I am my father's son. I am my father." Neither mother nor father did very well in burlesque, however, and money problems led to divorce. Mickey's mother took him to California and got him parts in films; his big break came in 1937 when MGM cast him as Andy Hardy, the typical small town boy, in A Family Affair...
Nobody expected very much from the film, but to an America just emerging from the Depression the story of the Hardy family was a symbol of what was best in the country. MGM quickly scheduled sequels, and in 1939 and 1940 Mickey was the box office king, bigger than Gable or Tracy. He made $5,000 a week -in real dollars. His teen-age escapades became staples of the gossip columns, and the studio hired a male duenna to keep him in line. That was not easy, and when he was 21, Mickey took his first wife, an unknown actress...
...profits of Chaplin's or of Harold Lloyd's, and he became vulnerable to a takeover. His career was not killed by the advent of the talkies, as is often assumed. It began to die when he signed a fat contract ($3,000 a week) at MGM and became answerable to accountants and better business methods...