Cinema: Shorts: Mar. 27, 1939

>Outcome of the long court fight between Jackie Coogan and his mother, Mrs. Lillian Bernstein: an agreement being submitted to court this week, to split the $250,000 remnant of the $4,000,000 which he earned as a child star.

>The highly censorable picture that made Hedy Lamarr famous, got her a contract with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, was Ecstasy, made in Czechoslovakia in 1933. Last week cinema columnists suddenly discovered that the director of Ecstasy, Gustav Machaty, has for the past two years also been under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, for whom he has turned out one low-budget...

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