Word: mgm
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ever built a tower in conjunction with a facility like this before. There'll be all sorts of unknowns, and a few inevitable hitches." He might take heart from the notoriously ragged 1993 opening weekend for the Luxor down the street and the early glitches at the MGM Grand that Barbra Streisand enumerated onstage when she headlined there...
...like Mrs. Chips in Goodbye, Mr. Chips and the title role in Mrs. Miniver, for which she won her Oscar. Born in Ireland, she graduated with honors from the University of London and became an actress against the wishes of her family. She was discovered in a play by MGM boss Louis B. Mayer and became that studio's premier star. Garson's third marriage, to Texas oil magnate E.E. ("Buddy") Fogelson, lasted 38 years. Her later years were marked by philanthropy...
...notion that women can't box and that if they tried, it would be some variant of boxercise or, worse yet, hot-oil wrestling. Well, as Tom Humphries wrote in the Irish Times, "it took five, maybe 10 seconds for the beery, testosterone charged crowd in the MGM [Grand] Garden to realize they weren't watching a novelty act...The mixture of ferocity and serious boxing skills left the most chauvinistic ticket holders gape-mouthed." Equally awed were the millions who saw the fight on pay-per-view. For days afterward, conversations about the Tyson fight invariably segued toward...
...reason why song and dance shouldn't reflect the realities of everyday life--and at the same time illuminate our everynight dream life. On Broadway it was Rodgers and Hammerstein, abetted by Agnes de Mille, who led this movement. In Hollywood it was producer Arthur Freed's "unit" at MGM, staffed mainly by sophisticated refugees from the East that carried the torch--and found in Kelly the dancer and choreographer who could embody their convictions...
Hearst's action against Kane suited Hollywood's Old Guard fine; MGM's Louis B. Mayer offered to buy the picture for $1 million and destroy the negative. Kane was finally released, amid raves and some skepticism from critics, a yawn from the public. At the following year's Oscar party, having earned nine nominations, the film was booed every time it was mentioned. Callow says that by today's counting methods, Kane would have won for Best Film. In fact, the only statuette went to Welles and Mankiewicz, for Best Screenplay. Mank, who did not attend the ceremony, told...