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...show business, palship never reigns but it pours. To a very few show folk-Al Jolson, Fanny Brice, Irving Thalberg, Variety Founder Sime Silverman-has gone an uninterrupted outpouring of vocal, tearful affection. This week a new name was added to the roll of comradely love when a clutch of top entertainers, including Bob Hope, Sid Caesar, Rosemary Clooney, Perry Como, Dinah Shore, Frank Sinatra, Jack Webb and Betty Grable, performed at union minimum rates ($265 each) in a 90-minute NBC telecast in honor of the late Manie Sacks. The show's title: Some of Manie...
...films. In 1918 he opened a studio to supply his own demands. Six years later, prodded by Theater Owner Marcus Loew, he merged his two companies with Producer Sam Goldwyn's studios to form Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The ex-junkman confidently made himself production chief. With Irving Thalberg, his brilliant assistant (and the model for F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Last Tycoon), Mayer set about remaking the motion-picture industry...
...Irving Thalberg Award ("achievement in the production field") went to Producer-Director George Stevens (A Place in the Sun, Shane...
...studios have slashed their contract lists from 900 to just over 300 people. At Fox, where production was cut by two-thirds, there was sometimes not even a fourth for bridge in the steam room. At mighty Metro, where production was halved, a whole wing was closed in the Thalberg (executive) building. Beverly Hills began to look like an abandoned anthill. All through the stylish canyons, For Sale signs sprouted. Hedy Lamarr set a fashion in elegant liquidation when she turned over her whole house to the auctioneer in June 1951. Everything went, including a wedding band inscribed in German...
...Thalberg Syndrome. Novelist Stephen Longstreet scratches the surface of Hollywood by merely scratching its back. Infected with a bad case of producer worship, or Thalberg Syndrome, The Beach House implies that its hero is a mute, inglorious Milton gagged by a lack of cash and artistic credit. But as Novelist Longstreet portrays him, he seems more like a shark whose teeth have gone...