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After alternately singing the blues and whistling in the dark all through the postwar years, Hollywood was hitting the gloomy low notes again last week. Speaking to a mass meeting of some 4,000 M-G-M employees on the concrete areaway in front of sound stage 18, MGM's real boss, President Nicholas M. Schenck of Loew's Inc., spelled out the bad news in unvarnished detail...
Schenck had slipped into Hollywood five weeks before, set up a round of interviews with MGM's key personnel, from Production Boss Dore Schary to Bathing Beauty Esther Williams. His conclusion: in the face of a box-office slump and skyrocketing overhead, the time had come for a rigid economy campaign...
Young Man with Ideas (MGM) would seem to be a misnomer for Actor Glenn Ford in this harebrained little comedy. Ford plays a Milquetoastish Montana lawyer who migrates to Los Angeles with his wife (Ruth Roman) and three children. There he finds himself preparing for the California bar examination with blonde Fellow Student Nina Foch, who has a habit of boning up on criminal law while attired in off-the-shoulder lounging pajamas. There is also Denise Darcel, an amorous French nightclub singer who wears low-cut dresses and is under the impression that Ford is a talent scout...
...Girl In White (MGM) is based on Dr. Emily Dunning Barringer's 1950 Bowery to Bellevue, about her experiences as New York's first woman ambulance intern at the turn of the century. The theme of the vigorously factual book was: Can a woman be a doctor? The issue in this rather weak, fictional adaptation: Can a woman doctor also be a woman...
...grossing movies last month, according to a Variety survey of 25 key U.S. cities: 1) The African Queen (United Artists) 2) The Marrying Kind (Columbia) 3) Red Ball Express - see below (Uni versal-International) 4) Belles on Their Toes (soth Century-Fox) 5) Singin' in the Rain (MGM...