Word: outbid
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...apart from movies that are "better than ever," is TV itself-large-screen theater television. The leading booster of theater TV is 20th Century-Fox President Spyros Skouras, who has large theatrical interests. Skouras argues that networks of movie houses with their own TV channels or circuits can outbid TV stations and advertisers for rights to sports events, operas, Broadway shows. Such programs, replacing second features on the double bill, would be good enough, says Skouras, to woo the customers from their free home sets...
Impatient but determined, Betty had prayed, pleaded and plotted for the role of Annie from the time she saw Ethel Merman do it in the 1946 Broadway hit. She never doubted she would get it, even after M-G-M outbid Paramount, her home studio, for the film rights. With Judy Garland cast in the lead and shooting already begun, Betty still insisted on betting an M-G-M executive that she would play the part...