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Washington Columnist Ruth Montgomery reported that oldtime Cinemactress Mary Pickford, during a recent White House visit, recalled a White House lunch in 1924 during which President Calvin Coolidge spoke only once: "Early in the luncheon, Mrs. Coolidge had informed her husband that Mrs. Howard Chandler Christy, wife of the artist, was ill. Silent Cal merely grunted. Finally, two courses later, he peered over his spectacles and mumbled, 'D'jasendflowers...
...York Times's Bess Furman. "That's just what I feel like," said Mamie. Then, as if she had done it a thousand times before, she reached for her engagement list and read it off, tea by inexorable tea. Among the coming events: a tea for Mary Pickford, with some old Pickford films ("I think...
...later years, United Artists came upon hard times chiefly because Owners Pickford and Chaplin could not agree on how it should be run. On top of that, the postwar movie slump killed off many independents, and few exhibitors wanted the small number of third-rate movies U.A. could get. By 1950 the debt ridden company was losing $70,000 a week, and seemed ready to fall into bankruptcy...
Hard Bargain. As a last resort, Partners Pickford and Chaplin turned to a lawyer named Arthur Krim, now 42, whose New York firm of Phillips, Nizer, Benjamin & Krim specialized in movie litigation. Krim had attended Columbia Law School, edited its law review, graduated (Phi Beta Kappa) at the top of his class in 1932, and gone immediately into law practice During World War II, Krim, commissioned a lieutenant colonel, served as assistant to Under Secretary of War Robert Patterson. At war's end, Krim was named president of Railroader Robert R. Young's Eagle Lion Films...
When United Artists finally came to him in February of 1951, Krim drove a hard bargain. His terms: he would pay no money for control of the company (though Mary Pickford said it was worth $5,400,000); if the company should show a profit in any one of the next three years, Krim's control would be extended up to ten years, and half the stock would go to him and Law Partner Robert Benjamin...