Word: thalberg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Written and directed by Edmund Goulding, Riptide is not a good advertisement for the Thalberg plan. It is an anecdote with elephantiasis, glossy but erroneous, in which the story is less help than hindrance to the three best drawing-room actors in Hollywood. Typical line, Montgomery to Shearer, when he meets her at Cannes: "Whither thou goest, beautiful lady, so will I follow...
...from $133,399 in 1929 to $118,750 in 1932. Adolph Zukor's bonus as president of Paramount Publix was $757,500 in 1929, plus salary of $130,000. For 1932 he listed salary of $96,031, no bonus. But Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's famed Producer Irving Thalberg, who received $208,000 straight salary in 1929, was still getting $201,000 in 1932-$99,000 less than M-G-M pays Greta Garbo for her 40-week year...
...star casts, the play by Edna Ferber and George Kaufman which was produced in Manhattan last winter was even better. The actors in Dinner at Eight selected by MGM's new producer David Selznick, make the cast of MGM's Grand Hotel, produced by Irving Thalberg, look like a road company, make the picture-less biting but more comprehensive than the play-superb entertainment. Under Director George Cukor, John Barrymore (Larry Renault), Lionel Barrymore (Oliver Jordan), Marie Dressier (Carlotta Vance), Jean Harlow (Kitty Packard), Wallace Beery (Dan Packard), Lee Tracy (Renault's agent), Billie Burke (Millicent Jordan...
Last week while Thalberg was en route to Europe with Mrs. Thalberg (Norma Shearer) to recuperate, MGM's directors announced that Associate Producers Edward J. Mannix and David Oliver Selznick had been elected vice presidents. Irish Eddie Mannix has been an MGM executive since 1924. David Oliver Selznick, son of the late famed Lewis J. Selznick, son-in-law of Louis B. Mayer, went to MGM for a fat salary two months ago. Before that he had been production chief of RKO, for which his last picture was Sweepings (see below). MGM had already appointed another associate producer...
...change left Hollywood with two more things to wonder about: whether Thalberg would ever resume his old post; whether last week's move was an attempt to oust him or merely a step in the current trend to decentralize studio authority. First official act of Vice President Selznick was to announce an all-star cast, even more prodigious than the one which Thalberg last year chose for Grand Hotel, for MGM's forthcoming production of Dinner at Eight: Marie Dressier, Wallace Beery, Jean Harlow, Lionel Barrymore, Billie Burke, Madge Evans, John Barrymore, Lee Tracy, Jean Hersholt, Louise Closser...