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Married. Louis Burt Mayer, 63, durable, diamond-smooth cinemogul (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Loew's, Inc.); and Mrs. Lorena Layson Danker, 41, Hollywood widow; each for the second time (he was divorced last April after 43 years of marriage) ; in Yuma, Ariz...
...average, cinemogul regards film critics as either free pressagents or costly saboteurs. Even when a bad picture is a box-office hit, the moviemaker resents the critic who has called it bad. MGM, which specializes in movies that the public loves, is particularly touchy about critics who refuse to love its products.* Last week MGM's dislike of unfriendly reviewers had roused all of London's critics to battle...
...Methodist known as "Holy Joe," used to tell him: "When I take a thing to prayer, I always succeed." Son J. Arthur Rank has never forgotten what his father taught. When Rank first went into moviemaking in 1934, it was to make religious shorts. More recently, Britain's Cinemogul Rank has made his name world-famed with productions of another sort, such as Henry V, Brief Encounter, Hamlet. But he has never stopped making religious shorts...
...British Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank was probably wishing that his gifted director, David (Brief Encounter) Lean, had not been quite so conscientious in copying Dickens and his illustrator, George Cruikshank. Director Lean's Great Expectations was hailed wherever it was shown as a superbly Dickensian cinema (TIME, May 26, 1947). In Fagin's case, Lean actually followed Cruikshank more closely than Dickens. The film never calls Fagin a Jew (Dickens rarely called him anything else), but he is faithfully villainous and repulsive-and unmistakably...
From such stuff, Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank makes a right fat slice of his film earnings; for doing it, Maggie Lockwood makes about ?30,000 a year-probably top money among British stars. Says she (with a blunt dig at stage-struck British stars who think they're slumming when they make pictures): "I am not one of those who is always dissatisfied with what she is doing...