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Movies are Cool!!!!
Lots of people back in the day,
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1942 Government
The government makes public the salaries earned by the heads of well–known companies. Louis B. Mayer, the head of MGM, is the highest paid executive in the country with an annual salary of approximately $700,000.
The American Federation of Labor (AFL) has called for a boycott of all Disney productions in support of strikers at Disney who have been battling for higher wages and recognition of their union -
Hollywood
The Hollywood actress and wife of Clark Gable, Carole Lombard, dies at the age of 34 in an airplane crash.
Because of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor just two months before, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decides to label its annual awards ceremony a “dinner” rather than a “banquet”, and to ban formal attire and the traditional outside searchlights. -
Motion Picture Herald
An opinion poll carried out by the Motion Picture Herald has shown that the American public is saturated with war films and is demanding movies that distract and entertain. -
Warner Bros.
As the motion picture exhibition industry loses more and more of its male employees to the armed services, women begin to fill the vacancies. In March, Warner Bros. reports that it now has the first theater in the U.S. to be staffed entirely by women. Three months later Loew's reports that 62 of its theaters, roughly half, are being run by women.
The Hollywood studios are dubbing their recent films in French and Italian. Their plan is to distribute them in Europe after the war. -
Academy of Motion Pictures
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences revises its rules for Academy Awards voting. Instead of allowing members of the entire film community to select nominees and winners, only members of the Academy will be allowed to vote. The Academy's rolls immediately increase from 700 to over 1,600. -
New York
At a meeting in New York City, the 50 most influential studio chiefs and producers have decided to dismiss any employee who refuses to cooperate with the House Committee (Un–American Activities HUAC), or who they suspect harbor Communist sympathies.
The Production Code has been amended to ban all scenarios describing the life of “notorious criminals” unless the character is seen to pay for his crime.
Ronald Reagan is elected president of the Screen Actors Guild. -
Sergei Eisenstein
The great Russian film director, Sergei Eisenstein, dies of a heart attack at the age of 50.
Under the terms of an agreement with the United Kingdom, American film companies will reinvest the $60 million profit, recently made in England, in various “permitted uses” such as hiring British talent, buying British story properties, etc. The English, in return, will reduce the 1947 tax on American films by 75%. -
Harry Warner
Harry Warner declares that Warner Bros. will introduce television production at its Burbank studios as soon as the FCC approves the studio's purchase of the Thackery television stations in Los Angeles. The government, however, puts a moratorium on the licensing of TV stations that is not lifted until 1952, and Thackery TV pulls out of the deal.
Paramount signs the antitrust agreement aimed at separating production and distribution. The company agrees to hand over its cinema network of 1,450 thea -
Joseph L. Mankiewic
During a reception in his honor, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, the president of the Screen Director's Guild, violently denounces the current policy of “blacklisting”, as well as Cecil B. DeMille's demand that members of the Screen Directors' Guild swear an oath of loyalty.
Both Gene Autry and Groucho Marx have signed to do television series.
