Word: thalberg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...projected 67 films, a dozen are already in the can and six are now shooting. The program will "challenge the gloomy prophets of defeat," said Schary, who is being privately hailed by his studio head, Louis B. Mayer, as the long-sought successor to the late Irving Thalberg. There are still "tough problems to be solved," Schary told the visiting salesmen, as they gathered for luncheon under thousands of square feet of improbably blue sky (left over from an old Esther Williams picture). But "no company fearing disaster could plan what we have planned...
...been one of MGM's brighter satellites. Then she dimmed. She was making a nice living, but chiefly as a loan-out. One day Irving Thalberg (Hedda remembers when L.B. hired him) decided: no more loan-outs. "Irving," she cried, "you don't mean me?" "Yes, Hedda," he replied, "I mean you too." As an actress, she was finished...
...first and most unabashed tune thieves, once told Movie-man Irving Thalberg, "When you buy me, you're buying Chopin, Liszt and Mozart. You're getting the very best." His most successful steal was Chasing Rainbows from Chopin's Fantasie-Impromptu. He got the title for Peg O' My Heart from the play (1912) starring Laurette Taylor, which had been a hit before Fisher borrowed its well-plugged name for his song. Fisher once sued Jerome Kern, accusing him of stealing the theme of his Kalula from the rumbling bass part of Dardanella. The jury awarded...
Married. Cinemactress Norma Shearer, 38; and San Francisco-born Skier Martin Arrouge, 28, ex-instructor at Sun Valley; she for the second time, he for the first; in Beverly Hills, Calif. He formerly taught her son and daughter skiing. She is the widow of Cineproducer Irving Thalberg, who left her and their children nearly $4,500,000. Before the marriage Skier Arrouge signed an agreement waiving his rights to a share of her estate...
...Thalberg: "I don't like the way this scene is being handled...