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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...showed him a list of possible new directors. On Selznick's list were Robert Z. Leonard, Jack Conway, King Vidor, Victor Fleming. Asked to choose, Gable promptly named his great & good friend Victor Fleming, a big, grey, handsome, nervous, highly efficient Hollywood veteran, who has pulled through such problem pictures as The Crowd Roars, The Great Waltz, The Wizard of Oz, recently directed two of M.G.M.'s greatest moneymakers, Captains Courageous, Test Pilot. On Feb. 27, Fleming started the cameras rolling. Conscientious Craftsman Fleming drove his company hard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Next was a casting problem. The characters must appear in the movie exactly as they were in the book. They...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: G With the W | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

Although unemployment is a primary U. S. problem, finding the right job is an important secondary one. There is no official U. S. agency to chart job trends and steer youth into the most promising occupations. Last year two smart, jobless young men started an unofficial agency to do it. By last week, when they finished their first year, their enterprise had grossed $100,000 and they had become leading authorities on job hunting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Job Hunters | 12/25/1939 | See Source »

...course will use the tools of economic analysis, applying them to the present problem. Economics of past wars; market organization, price control and rationing; money and banking in war times; the relation of money and public and private capital markets; and the relation of war to economic fluctuations will be dealt with in the lectures and reading...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WAR'S ECONOMIC PHASES STUDIED IN NEW COURSE | 12/19/1939 | See Source »

...through the script, he has taken the show on his own Napoleonic shoulders and carried it through to Garcia. Along with being able to sing tap-dance play the piano, imitate Roosevelt, and other odd jobs, it might even he said that Rooney can act. His introduction to the problem of smoking a cigar is one of the funniest scenes put on Celluloid in a long time. He is even allowed to go through a tolerable love scene now that the Hays office has found out that the younger generation clinches once or twice before they're twenty-five...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE MOVIEGOER | 12/18/1939 | See Source »

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