Word: paramount
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Reader Gutterman's own biographical sketch in the Motion Picture Almanac notes: "Paramount publicity writer 1941-42. June 1942 appointed publicity director Warner Brothers Radio Division...
...deeper into the animation field (it already has a TV contract with UFA, makers of the Mr. Magoo shorts) by the rumored $5,000,000 purchase of all the assets of Paul Terry's Terrytoons, Inc. Paramount Pictures also edged into TV with an offering of 1,600 short subjects (asking price: $3,500,000), and Producer David O. Selznick sold eleven of his feature-length films (including The Paradine Case, Notorious, The Farmer's Daughter) to National Telefilm Associates for $1,000,000. At week's end Columbia Pictures jumped on the TV bandwagon by leasing...
Last week Martin & Lewis got their reward: a new five-year contract with NBC that will pay them $7,500,000 for a minimum of four shows a year. In his paneled Paramount Studio dressing room, Jerry Lewis intoned: "We're very proud we're in a position that we can be of strength to NBC." Dean Martin, Jerry explained, was still on the set rehearsing a scene for their current movie, Pardners. Jerry added: "The way we do it is sometimes Dean does the talking, sometimes I do. I usually do the business for both...
...Martin & Lewis technique has paid off well. In addition to their fat NBC contract, Dean and Jerry make two movies a year: one for Paramount with a guarantee of 70% of the net profits and one for Producer Hal Wallis at a straight salary of $200,000 (see CINEMA). Last year their combined income topped...
Artists and Models (Hal Wallis; Paramount) is an alarming example of what can happen when a picture is remade too often. No matter how vigilant the studio, slight changes creep into each new version, until at last some producer makes a movie that is almost original. In this film, for instance, there is hardly anything left of its two Paramount predecessors except the old, reliable title. In fact, when Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis have finished their indefatigable routine, there is very little of anything left...