Word: movieman
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Since Jimmy left his $30,000-a-year berth as vice president of Samuel Goldwyn. Inc. (which has suspended production pending the outcome of a legal fight between Movieman Goldwyn and his United Artists co-stockholders), he has also been working on a scheme to make shorts to be exhibited in vending machines (TIME, March 4). Meantime he has moved from his Beverly Hills house-awf-swimming pool to a modest apartment on the other and wrong side of town, now keeps no servants, drives his own car. Says Jimmy: "Joe Kennedy* once told me, 'There are only...
...wrong. Last fortnight Fred Mills had indeed signed a contract for slot-machine movies, but not with Warner Bros. Following in his father's footsteps, ambitious, balding Jimmie Roosevelt stepped into the picture when the Mills-Warner deal was all but clinched. With Slot Machineman Mills, Movieman Roosevelt launched the Mills-Globe Co.; Mills to provide a reported $3,000,000 of financing, Roosevelt to provide one two-and-a-half to three-minute talkie every week. Carefully Producer Roosevelt explained that his slot-machine interests in no way affect his Globe Production's agreement with United Artists...