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Just one painting held the crowd momentarily. Ivan Le Lorraine Albright's pustulant portrait of Dorian Gray, painted for MGM's movie of Oscar Wilde's novel, stared arrestingly from under a strong spotlight. To keep calloused fingers off moldering Dorian, he was surrounded by a low grey fence. Blurted one housewife, after minutes of careful study: "Anyway, you can tell he's English." The man who painted the sorry sight had also contributed a lithographic Self Portrait (which won $50). It was better-dressed but no better-fleshed than Dorian. "That fellow," confided one bemused...
...impromptu off-the-air cracks show no sign of weakening under the pressure of his new venture. When he recently saw MGM's apologetic version of the radio-baiting novel The Hucksters, he remarked in the theater lobby: "This is the greatest exposé of the movie industry I have ever seen...
...flying, labor unioneer (Newspaper Guild) daughter of the late publisher of the New York Daily News; and Artist Ivan Le Lorraine Albright, 50, whose specialty is such uncomfortably detailed pictures of decay as Into The World There Came A Soul Called Ida and the Dorian Gray he painted for MGM: a son, their first child (she had two by her previous marriage); in Chicago. Name: Adam. Weight...
Last week, in King's Bench Court, a jury heard MGM's sulky defense: Miss Robertson was against "heart interest" in films; she had used her BBC time for "self-exhibitionism"; she had punctuated her reviews with "her charming but extremely cynical little laugh...
...been one of MGM's brighter satellites. Then she dimmed. She was making a nice living, but chiefly as a loan-out. One day Irving Thalberg (Hedda remembers when L.B. hired him) decided: no more loan-outs. "Irving," she cried, "you don't mean me?" "Yes, Hedda," he replied, "I mean you too." As an actress, she was finished...