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Most successful Hollywood producer, as usual, last year was Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. This year, also as usual, MGM convened before its rivals. Pictures about which MGM salesmen heard most in Hollywood last fortnight were Kim, co-starring Freddie Bartholomew and Robert Taylor, and Idiot's Delight starring Clark Gable. Other major MGM ventures will be Girl of the Golden West (Jeanette MacDonald & Nelson Eddy) ; The Return of the Thin Man (William Powell and Myrna Loy). Total MGM product will be 52 pictures at the most. On MGM's list but not yet assigned are Silas Marner, As Thousands...
...week's end negotiations were still deadlocked when an I.A.T.S.E. official telephoned the Guild's Founder-Secretary Kenneth Thomson, promised to call a sympathetic walkout of his 30,000 members if the Guild struck. At that, the producers' representatives knuckled under. On behalf of RKO, Paramount, MGM, Columbia, Universal and Twentieth Century-Fox, Twentieth Century's Chairman Joseph M. Schenck and MGM's Vice President Louis B. Mayer squeezed their signatures at the bottom of an agreement to the Guild's demands, scribbled on a sheet of foolscap. Prime points were granting...
...adapted by A. E. Thomas from a Don Marquis play, Good Old Soak is a minor vehicle for Actor Beery's Piltdown pathos and the efforts of a supporting cast which somehow seem even below MGM's post-Thalberg standard. Typical shot: Beery rubbing his nose...
...spur to British industry; it symbolizes the tradition of unity and solidarity that has kept a broad-minded monarchy above the harmful reach of political revolutions and personal disabilities. It is an unconservative burst of pride for the loyalty of its subjects. Like the tawny cat who introduces and MGM picture, the Coronation will sound the note of exultation for the future weal of the British Empire...
...original screen story and the best screen adaptation of the year. Oscar for the best direction of the year went to Frank Capra for Mr. Deeds Goes to Town. The Academy gave out 15 other Oscars for everything from film editing to sound recording. Of these, four went to MGM, six to Warner Brothers. Biggest Oscar collection in Hollywood is that of Cartoonist Walt Disney. Last week he got his fifth, for the best cartoon of the year, Mickey Mouse's Country Cousin...