Word: cinemoguls
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...Santa Anita one night in 1947, horse fanciers and some of Hollywood's top stars looked down on a spotlighted auction ring for a notable equine event. On the block was the first lot of thoroughbreds from Cinemogul Louis B. Mayer's famed stable. As the sale began, L.B. jokingly whispered in the ear of Announcer Humphrey S. Finney: "I found Clark Gable as an extra and converted him into the biggest thing in pictures. Now I'm going to convert Finney into the biggest salesman in the horse business...
...Cinemogul J. Arthur Rank, Britain's leading producer-exhibitor, told a London court last week that his film empire lost money at the box office in the last twelve months. What saved the year: a profit of ?1,151,000 ($3,222,800) on ice cream sold to moviegoers...
...Cinemogul Cecil B. (The Greatest Show on Earth) DeMille leaned over the railing of the press gallery at the Republican National Convention last week, a reporter asked: "Does this look like the second greatest show on earth to you?" "No," replied DeMille good-naturedly, "this is the greatest." And for the press it was. More than 3,000 newspapermen (and 2,000 radio-TV men) blanketed Chicago for the biggest, most elaborate coverage ever given any story. Pundits, Washington reporters, foreign correspondents, feature writers, women's-angle writers, columnists and "specials" of every stripe turned out more than...
...green & gold Cadillac of a young man named Nick Spanos caused pedestrians to stare. But the real eye-stopper was the photostat of a check which Spanos proudly showed friends as he drove about. The amount: $1,333,605.22. Lawyer Spanos, 33, had collected it for a client from Cinemogul Spyros P. Skouras' famed 20th Century-Fox and eight other movie companies, after winning one of the biggest legal awards in Hollywood's history...
Terrible to Terrific. The success of Laughton's readings has revived a critics' wrangle over the quality of his acting. Opinions range, as they always have, from terrible to terrific. One noted Broadway director calls him "100% true-blue ham." But British Cinemogul Sir Alexander Korda insists that Laughton is a genius. "He has a feverish will for being superlatively good, a wonderful sincerity...