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Love Is Better Than Ever (MGM) works at a strenuous little plot about a dewy-eyed New Haven dancing teacher (Elizabeth Taylor), who is out to hook a blase Broadway agent (Larry Parks). In the course of her campaign, she 1) annoys him by publicly announcing their nonexistent engagement, 2) gets him tangled up in a troupe of twirling moppets at a dance recital, 3) taunts him with being a "flesh peddler." Elizabeth Taylor, ineptly striving for comic form, reveals a photogenic figure, but Parks falls flat on his farce. Completed early in 1951, Love Is Better Than Ever...
...second feature, It's a Big Country, looks like The Voice of America illustrated. Featuring a handful of MGM's top stars, including Ethel Barrymore and Frederic March, the movie contains a string of eight vignettes which, for the most part, stress Brotherhood and America the Beautiful. Obviously, this represents an attempt by Metro Goldwyn Mayer to win a medal from some organization or another. Actually, the studio is doing more harm than good. It is much more valuable to show the American people what is wrong with this country than to merely pat them on the back...
...Vadis. MGM's $6,500,000 worth of spectacle in Nero's Rome; with 30,000 extras, Robert Taylor and Deborah Kerr (TIME...
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...fight against the Big Five moviemakers. In a consent decree, Loew's Inc., owner of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios, agreed to split into two separate units: one for production and distribution, the other for exhibition. The producing and distributing company will keep Loew's corporate name and MGM's label on its products. President Nicholas Schenck, who has bossed the company since 1927, will probably continue to run Loew's. The theater company, its name still to be picked, will have a completely separate management...