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...This is a business of creation and imagination. The best company in this industry is Loew's Inc.-because some years ago they bought Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and the services of Louis Mayer, Irving Thalberg and J. R. Rubin. Without those three men I wouldn't give for the stock. . . . We pay stars $8,000 or $9,000 weekly and make money out of them. Zanuck, who directs these stars and creates stars, is worth $5,000 a week. ... It may be more money than bank presidents are paid, but bank presidents can't make moving pictures...
Born. To Mr. & Mrs. Irving Thalberg (Norma Shearer); an 8-lb. daughter; in Hollywood. The Thalbergs have a son. Irving...
...Above directors in Hollywood's economic, if not in its esthetic, scale are producers who hire directors, assign them to pictures, tell them how much to spend and are, to some extent, respon- sible for their work. Three of the most widely publicized producers in Hollywood: MGM's Irving Thalberg, Twentieth Century's Darryl Zanuck, Universal's Carl Laemmle...
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, still the most potent producing plant in Hollywood, had more than David Copperfield and a Prime Minister to ballyhoo. Prime factors in the past success of Metro pictures have been 1) "star-power"; 2) Irving Thalberg. First two pictures on Producer Irving Thalberg's schedule are The Merry Widow, with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, directed by Ernst Lubitsch; and Pearl Buck's The Good Earth for which exteriors have already been filmed in China. Cinemaddicts, who have lately been warned by the Roman Catholic Church's Legion of Decency to cast a suspicious...
...Riptide-Produced by MGM Unfortunately typical of the pictures that have been built around Norma Shearer, the much publicized wife of Irving Thalberg who picks her plays and her roles. It seems typical of Hollywood morality that a husband as production manager should constantly cast his charming wife in the role of a loose and immoral woman. . . . We advise strong guard over all pictures which feature Norma Shearer. .. . Protest. . . . Protest...