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...friend whether he expected their romance to be celebrated by a cinema like the one in which this ironic little conversation occurs, any sensible young Swede, no matter how well-mannered, would certainly have answered no. Hollywood's tumbrils began rumbling five years ago, when an MGM story reader reported that Stefan Zweig's Marie Antoinette was "thoroughly modern, thoroughly plausible and slightly censorable." The picture was listed on the late Irving Thalberg's last production schedule, with his wife in the title role. The French Revolution, MGM, Shearer & Power, Director W. S. Van Dyke...
...Marie Antoinette, MGM furnishes its fussiest star with her first role since Romeo and Juliet and maintains its position as the industry's supreme spendthrift. The picture presents French royalty as what it always has been for the cinema: a field day for dressmakers and writers of "O Sire" dialogue. The peak moment of Marie Antoinette occurs when Miss Shearer appears in a little number run up for her by MGM's famed Adrian, the skirt of which is held out by three-foot fenders on each side with two handles for its occupant to hold when turning...
Love Finds Andy Hardy (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Fourth item in MGM's lively series on the homely, 100% American problems of the Hardy Family, Love Finds Andy Hardy rises above the standard not only of its predecessors but also of most of its producer's most expensive features. Its numerous faults-the assiduous overacting of Master Mickey Rooney, frequent instances in which bread-&-butter comedy falls butter side down, a misbegotten musical number for a climax-serve mainly to emphasize its cardinal virtue, of preserving intact the mood and flavor of ordinary life in an ordinary...
...epitome of U. S. historical glamor. Nowadays it does not seem much better than a bore, and all the flounced dresses, veranda columns and old plantation dialogue in Hollywood-on which The Toy Wife appears to be trying to corner the market-cannot completely change it. Produced with MGM's customarily scrupulous attention to visual detail, the picture relates with considerable pictorial beauty the lachrymose story of Gilberte Brigard, nicknamed "Frou Frou." Pretty, light-headed little Frou Frou makes the mistake of marrying a serious young lawyer, George Sartoris (Melvyn Douglas), with whom her sister (Barbara O'Neil...
...does so to give proper setting to Hollywood's greatest star roster, to produce most of Hollywood's best jobs, many of its stuffiest. Over last fiscal year, Loew's Inc. topped the cinemindustry with a net income of $14,426,062. In the coming season, MGM's schedule calls for 52 films, to include Northwest Passage, with Robert Taylor; The Women, with Norma Shearer; The Citadel, in production in England to satisfy the new British quota law (TIME, April 11); Kim, with Freddie Bartholomew; and Dale Carnegie's How to Win Friends and Influence...