Word: wizard
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ones are here, in color, on pages large enough to illustrate his mastery, his humanity and his imaginative understanding. But the book also includes hundreds of drawings, the sketches for inventions that range from military catapults to flying machines, proof of his restless talents as anatomist, engineer, geographer, mechanical wizard. This volume, the work of many expert hands, explores the heart, the mind and the life of the foremost man of the Renaissance, and is worthy of its subject...
Last year, M-G-M studio, geared to make 45 to 50 pictures a year, made only 25, lost money. The movie losses, say the dissidents, were made up by Loew's generally profitable theater operations, The re-release of several old films (Gone With the Wind, The Wizard of Oz.), the leasing of MGM's film library to TV (returns to date: $26 million). Loew's overall 1955 profits amounted to $5,311.733, or just 16% of the total profits of Hollywood's Big Six moviemakers, v. Loew's 32% slice in 1950, when...
...Ford Star Jubilee showing last week of MGM's 1939 musiclassic The Wizard of Oz-which hauled down a spectacular 29.4 Trendex rating-forced a couple of stark truths on TVmen. Hollywood, with about 200 of its best old movies headed straight for TV this year, will have a hard time competing with itself. Further, the whole system of network programming may soon have to be revamped...
...first uncut feature film ever seen on TV, Oz brought the fairy-tale wanderings of a wide-eyed, 16-year-old Judy Garland into U.S. homes for the first time. The E. Y. Harburg-Harold Arlen score (Over the Rainbow, We're Off to See the Wizard) sounded as fresh and enchanting as ever. To kick off the movie, Buffoon Bert Lahr, who played the craven lion in the film, reminisced to Judy's ten-year-old daughter, Liza Minnelli, about the good old days at MGM. If the movie suffered in its new setting, it was mainly...
...Fair Lady) Andrews. Ford Star Jubilee will hire Cole Porter. Shirley Jones, Gordon MacRae. Dorothy Dandridge, Dolores Gray. George Sanders. Louis Armstrong to salute Composer Porter's 40 years of songwriting. Ford will also adapt Sidney Kingsley's Men in White and showcase MGM's The Wizard of Oz. Ed Murrow's, See It Now will include cathode reports from the Suez. Asia. Russia and South America, and a 1½hr. documentary of Buffoon Danny Kaye's 32,000-mile junket for the U.N.'s Children's Emergency Fund. Martin Manulis...