NORMA SHEARER’S £200,000
PAID To STAY IN FILMS
NEW YORK, December 2
Nearly £2iM).()()() lias been paid io Norma Shearer by Motro-Goldwyu-Mayer since the death of hoc husband. Irving Thalherg, in 1936, to dissuade her from abandoning film work. This fact was revealed at the trial siarted in the New York Supremo Court of the suit brought by eight minority stockholders, who accuse officials of Loew's Incorporal od —tho M.-G.-M. holding company—of mismanagement. waste and payment of excessive salaries.
Counsel for the plaintiffs asserted that between 191’7 and 19.’!S salaries and bonuses amounting to nearly £•1.0(10,000 had been paid to Irving Thalberg as production manager: Mr. Louis B. Mayer, vice-president in charge, of productions, and Mr. J. Robert Rubin, vice-president.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 19 January 1939, Page 2
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