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Dec 5, 2020 · Thalberg served as MGM’s head of production and was famous for cultivating the screen images of stars such as Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, and Greta Garbo, among others.
Dec 12, 2020 · The anti-Sinclair campaign marked a stunning advance in the art of public relations, “in which advertising men now believed they could sell or destroy political candidates as they sold one brand ...
The “perennial Socialist party candidate for statewide office,” Sinclair’s astounding success in the Democratic primary, in which he won the nomination with more votes than any other primary election candidate in California history, led to perhaps the first big “hit campaign” of modern politics, spearheaded in no small part by the Hollywood studios, and in particular, MGM, Thalberg ...
Nov 18, 2020 · While Irving Thalberg did produce three newsreels that were created to crush Upton Sinclair in his campaign against incumbent Frank Merriam for the governorship of California, an offhand comment by Mankiewicz never gave Thalberg the inspiration to make the faked newsreels. Mankiewicz never made such a comment, which in the film he later regrets.
Nov 6, 2020 · The never-distant scourge of anti-Semitism also gets a hat tip: Mayer and Thalberg’s blasé attitude toward the rise of European fascism in the early ’30s is pointedly rebuked, years later, by ...
Appraising the studio’s financial and artistic success in the midst of the Depression, the anonymous piece identifies Thalberg as “what Hollywood means by MGM” (“Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer” 1976: 257). Mayer receives fairly lengthy commentary in his role as “a commercial diplomat” in charge of “contacts and contracts” (267); the ...
Dec 6, 2020 · Regardless, the foundation of Metcalf's character can be found in Felix E Feist, who was indeed an MGM test shot director tapped by production head Irving Thalberg to create anti-Sinclair newsreels. Much like its critically-lauded ancestor, the critically-lauded Mank features an all-important race for the governorship of a major state at its ...
