CIN374Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Josef Von Sternberg, It Happened One Night
24 Oct 2018
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Irving thalberg is replaced by unit producers in 1932 (david o. selznick, hunt. Stromberg, walter wagner, joe mankiewicz, and harry rapf. Mgm has more stars than in heaven . Glamorous actors and actresses: joan crawford, greta garbo, myrna loy, louise rainer. Films were conservative, restrained, polished musicals and melodramas. Middle american values emphasized homespun: andy hardy series. Darryl f. zanuck leaves wb in 1935 to become studio executive in charge of production at the newly merged studio. Pre-industrial, populist narratives (known as 16th century fox) costume dramas such as. No real consistency in management or output. First studio to implement unit production in 1931. As a little studio, columbia borrowed actors from other studios. Developed talent such as rita hayworth and william holden. 1934 it happened one night (wins at new academy awards; shows that a small studio could produce something big) Guided by carl laemmle and the laemmle family from 1911.
