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...tournament. But for Malory, Launcelot did not live just from joust to joust. His chivalrous life was sprinkled with palace romances that would be cover stories in every contemporary magazine from Focus to Dare. In Knights of the Round Table, the movie version of the tale, MGM has all but smothered the knight's rakish inclinations. True, he remains the "champion" to Queen Guinevere, but in the book the word seems to have a greater breadth of meaning...
...After 23 years as MGM's top star, He-Man Clark Gable, 53, wound up his current contract with the studio, waved, goodbye to his friends, and drove off for a vacation. After that, he will make pictures as a freelancer. Also leaving the lot, after 16 years: Greer (Mrs. Miniver) Garson. Coincidentally, MGM, ready to celebrate its own 30th anniversary, announced that it would shut up shop, after finishing several current pictures, to prepare for its next production list...
...MGM) is the same salt solution, give or take a pinch, that the movie public has been contentedly gargling since Mutiny on the Bounty (1935). There are Robert Taylor and the usual miniature whale, the mutiny on the blood-slopped foredeck, the bad harpooner called Silva. the nice native girl (Betta St. John) and the sunken treasure-in this case so palpably a ball bearing that audiences may wonder why all the actors believe it to be a large black pearl...
When all is over, however, one last dilemma remains: what is MGM going to do with all those plaster busts of Louis Calhern...
Other big moneymakers for the year-Shane, The Robe-showed up on a few other "best" lists. The National Board of Review picked MGM's Julius Caesar as the No. 1 film. The remainder of the national board's top ten: Shane, From Here to Eternity, Martin Luther, Lili, Roman Holiday, Stalag 17, The Little Fugitive, Mogambo, The Robe...