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was an
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to make some. Then he said he had a deal with some trapeze artists. Well, you know yourself, you're out with a gal relaxing in a bar, you don't want to see no bubble dancer or acrobat. You want to hear some good music. You want something with class. You want to see
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De Mille, he has an inferior complex. It takes two weeks to get into see him. Well, we didn't like that. We're just plain businessmen. We finally told him we had to get some pictures. He said he was going to get
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from the racetrack and asked them for advice. "So we had to go ahead", said Morris. "Or else we would have looked cheap to Mayer and Capra because we'd told them about it."
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in exchange for $ 19,500 and 50% of the profits. The movie was shot at
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the can. That's the way we do business and we're not going to stop until we get an
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Schallert, Edwin (Oct 11, 1950). "George Murphy Does Cop; Eddy Deal Negotiated; Madison Signed by Kings".
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maybe. That was the trouble. De Mille might make big epics but for us he didn't have no class.
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25:Industry
646:Tijuana
43:Defunct
35:Founded
692:Trumbo
654:(1951)
648:(1947)
588:(1944)
582:(1942)
576:(1942)
570:(1942)
548:(1968)
532:(1967)
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144:Dnipro
138:Career
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119:Gorgo
55:Films
1266:2015
1240:2016
926:2022
897:2022
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46:1969
38:1941
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