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Twenty-five student "extras" waited on the weather for an hour and a half yesterday morning before Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer finally decided that the sky was too cloudy for the first day's shooting of "Mystery Street." Weather permitting, the Yard scenes of the MGM crime drama will be shot today...
After today, the MGM crew will move on to Boston and Cape Cod for about five more days of external shooting. Then the crew will return to Hollywood to complete the film with interior shots...
Preliminary arrangements for the picture were concluded in Hollywood in August, when MGM studio representatives sat down with Alan R. Morits, formerly Lee Professor of Legal Medicine at Harvard and director of the Department of Legal Medicine, which aids police in the investigation of Massachusetts crimes...
...idea of the picture was first conceived by MGM early in 1949 when two investigators for the studio discovered the work of the Legal Medicine Depart- ment and thought it would be a good subject for a semi-documentary crime film...
...Hollywood still had something to worry about. Income from foreign box offices would suffer from devaluation of the pound. MGM's Louis B. Mayer estimated dourly that his studio's overall receipts would be cut by nearly 10%. He ordered a new economy drive, but, for the time being at least, M-G-M and the other major studios hoped to get along without any layoffs...