The Key West Citizen Newspaper, December 26, 1953, Page 7

Dore Schary Says The Star System In Moviedom Is Not On The Way Out HOLLYWOOD ig anol “The star system may be under-| “Of course, we have fewer play-jcan also lend them to other tem fold up? Mot on your life,| going & period of transition at the ers under conract than we did studios.” assures MGM boss Dore Schary. | present time,” he said, “but it will 5 °F 10 years ago. We found tha® To prove his point, Scbary There has been a lot of specule-lsiways be: the i of it Was not economically sound to rattled off most of the names on “Metro since its inception has about 40 names under exclusive ert Taylor, Kelly, Williams, Char- Betty Grable is allowed to free-'slways held to that theory. We|contract—and we prefer exclusive isse, Caron, Angeli, Eleanor Park- 48 pata lance, what else ean you believe? have built more stars and made/picture deals because we can buildier, Cathern, Blyth, Keel, Jane T oF FS f | And with a studio like Warnersithem last longer than any other and control careers that way. (Powell, Lionel Barrymore, etc., f 2 iF iA down to four players! jstudio. And when they leave here,| “We cannot carry as many stars etc. What about Clark Gable? | ‘aie 2 A € = the maintain the buge list we had in the MGM roster: Tracy, Turner, “ { : ‘ t = ee itce mee ada ph os industry. the past. At present there are|Gardner, Garson, Liz Taylor, Rob- ~] Vy = oe 3 ~, For advice on the situation I/ most of them still have that great| because we are making 22 pictures) “He is a question mark. He is] NY went to MGM, which has long been| aura of being a star a year, compared to 46 in the now making his last or next-to- fe. \'s an almost feudal stronghold of the) “At present, we have more past. But I think the size of our last picture under his contract. We =, “& Gtar system. Schary scoffed at the|stars under contract than all the|star list now is economically hope be will sign again. The same os z Botion that the studio was scuttling| other studios put together. And we|sound. We will make enough pic- is true of Van Johnson, whose con- the stars. ‘intend to continue our star policy. |tdres to keep them busy, and weltract is also up soon.” —by McEvoy and Striebeb . A AN OF TH’ HOOTIN’ HOLLER A CITY COUNCIL et z CO {J 17 Ea} | SKIERS I¢ GIVING S | ME THE witties.