Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sedate old Murray Hill house was built in 1863, its walls rumored to be bulletproofed against Civil War draft rioters. George S. Bowdoin, a partner of J. P. Morgan, acquired it some 20 years later. In its backyard is a cemetery with eight weathered headstones-one for each of the chow dogs buried there by Bowdoin's spinster daughter, Edith, who died five years ago. What was left of gilt and ormolu in the house glistened under new fluorescent lights. Businesslike desks, clacking typewriters and paid workers crowded the high-ceilinged chambers...
...Morgan (Jeanette MacDonald, back on the screen after six years' absence) is a divorcee who sings and falls in love with Jose Iturbi (played, with superb assurance, by Jose Iturbi). Jeanette's three little girls (Jane Powell, Ann E. Todd, Mary Eleanor Donohue), who still idealize their father, oppose the marriage. Everybody is fairly stupid about trying to resolve the trouble, but everybody means awfully well. Also, everybody bursts into song or sits down at the piano with little or no provocation...
...production, President Jerome T. Kilty '50 will pay Richard, while Robert Keaghy '45 will direct. Others in top role include Bryant N. Halliday '49, Albert E. Marre 1L, Thayer David, and Miles Morgan...
...MORGAN...
Other top Hollywood salaries: Director Leo McCarey ($355,426), Producer Walter Wanger ($282,899), Singer "'Dennis Morgan ($261,000), Barbara Stanwyck ($256,666), Lana Turner ($226,000). Actually, the Treasury report for the calendar year 1945, and the fiscal year ended in 1946, did not tell the whole income story. It listed only salaries paid by companies, and took no account of dividends, capital gains or the "collapsible corporations" which have earned many a Hollywoodian (and many a plain businessman) far more than his salary...