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Marion Davies, Norma Shearer, Irving Thalberg, Gary Cooper & wife. All donned costumes (by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) of the year of the great man's birth. Men paraded about as Union or Confederate officers. Women wore crinoline gowns, hoop skirts. At the birthday dinner an enormous cake, wired for sound, sang out: "Dear Mister Hearst: This is your birthday cake speaking to you to give you the greetings of your friends assembled here and your friends all over the world to wish you happiness this...
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...
...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...