[permalink] [id link]
In a gamble to save the studio, and inspired by the success of Paramount Pictures ' 1956 Biblical epic The Ten Commandments, studio head Joseph Vogel announced in 1957 that MGM would again move forward on a remake of Ben-Hur.
from
Wikipedia
Some Related Sentences
gamble and save
He was less interested than many town planners of the time in the moral reform of those who lived there, believing that people had the right to work, educate their children, pray, drink, gamble, save or waste money as they saw fit.
gamble and studio
Walt Disney was convinced that short cartoons would not keep his studio profitable in the long run, so he took what was seen as an enormous gamble.
Having completed Bully's Prize Board, the winning pair were presented with the option of whether to gamble their winnings from the prize board for the mystery Star Prize hidden behind a screen in the studio.
Harvey Goldsmith ’ s courageous and visionary gamble caused The Times to reflect that it made the Royal Albert Hall look like a studio theatre.
A studio could gamble on a medium-budget feature with a good script and relatively unknown actors: Citizen Kane, directed by Orson Welles and often regarded as the greatest film of all time, fits that description.
gamble and by
Thus, a Blackwood query by the player holding two quick losers in a side suit is a wild gamble, as it is still possible that the suit is not controlled by an Ace or a King.
Customers gamble by playing games of chance, in some cases with an element of skill, such as craps, roulette, baccarat, blackjack, and video poker.
Although initiated by a gamble of then-President of the Commission, Walter Hallstein, who lost the Presidency after the crisis, it exposed flaws in the Council's workings.
Werblin's gamble would later pay off as Namath, who become a public star, led the Jets on to victory in Super Bowl III, though by then Werblin had sold his stake in the team.
In their book, Vanuatu by Jocelyn Harewood and Michelle Bennett, is this memorable passage referring to the 1920s: " Drunken plantation owners used to gamble ... using the ` years of labour ' of their Melanesian workers as currency.
Powell did not stay up on election night to watch the results on television and when on 1 March Powell picked up his copy of The Times from his letterbox and saw the headline " Mr Heath's general election gamble fails ", he reacted by singing the Te Deum.
Facing the desperate circumstance the king, with experienced Hunyadi fighting and breaking the Sipahi cavalry, decided to gamble and attack the very person of the sultan, protected by the guard cavalry and formidable Janissary infantry.
He decided therefore to gamble his entire army to break the siege and force the Scots to a final battle by putting its army into the field.
In a major strategic gamble, Chiang Kai-shek decided to divert Japanese attacks in northern China by attacking Shanghai, which the Japanese had occupied earlier in 1937.
He takes a bold gamble: he requests another vote, this time by secret ballot.
Kuhn later wrote in his autobiography, Hardball: The Education of a Baseball Commissioner, that he was shocked at what he called a " foolish gamble " by the Senators, and predicted that the trade would turn out to be a Tiger heist.
The city by the river now attracts nearly 3 million visitors annually who visit Laughlin to gamble, enjoy water sports on the Colorado and attend many high-profile special events hosted by the community.
On this trip, Charles was given a substantial amount of money with which to learn to gamble by his father, who also arranged for him to lose his virginity, aged fourteen, to a Madame de Quallens.
With Hayata needing to transform immediately and having no way to reach the device safely, he took an extraordinary gamble by throwing himself headfirst off the building, and managed to grab the capsule and activate it as he fell.
Constantine's response to this tightening circle of enemies was a final desperate gamble: he marched on Italy with the remaining troops left to him, encouraged by the entreaties of one Allobich who wanted to replace Honorius with a more capable ruler.
Of those which failed, Hallelujah in 1929 was also a gamble by Thalberg.
Will the monkey “ gamble ” by waiting until the experimenter changes the amount of food present?
Messina's gamble in 1978 proved successful as the series was a financial success, having more than broken even by 1982.
Caturla was murdered at 34 by a young gamble.
French ’ s paper criticised GHQ estimates of German casualties compared to War Office figures, pointed out that there was no firm evidence that German losses were commensurate with Allied, and that any further Western Front Offensive “ has become more of a “ gamble ” than anything else we have undertaken ” and that any future plans and forecasts by Haig should be most carefully examined.
According to historian Thomas G. Andrews, the tonnage system drove many poor and ambitious colliers to gamble with their lives by neglecting precautions and taking on risk, with consequences that were often fatal.
Owing to the upsetting of Bismark's carefully laid balance of power in European politics caused by Leopold's gamble and subsequent European race for colonies, Germany felt compelled to act and started launching expeditions of its own which frightened both British and French statesmen.
Liu and Deng both saw it as a gamble rather than a strategic move, and even Mao himself was not certain if such gamble would pay off by openly discussing the three possible outcomes:
gamble and success
Some people are willing to take their chances to gamble their health on the success of new drugs or old drugs in new situations which may not yet have been fully tested in clinical trials.
A major change in popular culture came in 1983 when singer Linda Ronstadt, then considered one of the leading female vocalists of the rock era The gamble paid off, as all three albums became hits, the international concert tours were a success and Riddle picked up a few more Grammys in the process.
The gamble paid off and the scheme was a success.
The recording will contain psychohistoric proof of Hardin's success or failure ; Hardin realizes that his coup is a great gamble due to the possible case that his beliefs are incompatible with Seldon's original goals.
This gamble has a chance of success if the other duopolist is low-risk, and would rather leave the market than engage in a price-cutting war.
Their gamble paid off and the success of the first leg of what would soon become the " world's greatest transportation system " almost immediately made them enormously rich.
For many commentators, this paradoxical move was a gamble to get the upper hand within the party before the next presidentical elections, in case of success of the No vote.
gamble and epic
Mallett's gamble failed in epic fashion, with Bergamasco's mistakes leading to three England tries before he was replaced at the half ; England went on to win 36 – 11.
gamble and Ten
Richmond Hill had also been successfully sold to ITV in the UK, and was rating in the high-20's in Australia, so it was a huge gamble by Ten to axe it and replace it with the untried E Street.
gamble and head
Players gamble on whether the coins will fall with both ( obverse ) heads up, both ( reverse ) tails up, or with one coin a head, and one a tail ( known as ' Odds ').
Tom Landry, the head coach of the newly formed Dallas Cowboys, made the gamble to trade for him, looking to perfect his ' Doomsday Defense '.
gamble and MGM
Flamini notes that Thalberg's " gamble paid off ," drawing international attention to MGM, and to Thalberg within the movie industry for his bold action.
gamble and would
With Villeroi shadowing Marlborough's every move, Marlborough's gamble that the French would not move against the weakened Dutch position in the Netherlands paid off.
German industry could build two medium bombers for one heavy bomber and the RLM would not gamble on developing a heavy bomber which would also take time.
Spectators would gamble on the outcome of the walking competitions.
Daly City served as a location where San Franciscans would cross over county lines to gamble and fight.
He also realized that the limestone would be a good source of nutrition for raising strong horses, so he took a gamble in 1943 and bought acreage along State Highway 200 at $ 10 per acre, which became Rosemere Farm.
These are not the only coordinating conjunctions ; various others are used, including " and nor " ( British ), " but nor " ( British ), " or nor " ( British ), " neither " (" They don't gamble ; neither do they smoke "), " no more " (" They don't gamble ; no more do they smoke "), and " only " (" I would go, only I don't have time ").
Mao's personal physician Li Zhisui, on the other hand, suggests that the campaign was " a gamble, based on a calculation that genuine counterrevolutionaries were few, that rebels like Hu Feng had been permanently intimidated into silence, and that other intellectuals would follow Mao's lead, speaking out only against the people and practices Mao himself most wanted to subject to reform.
However, it is often a gamble, as it would easily kill an unqualified person, and there is no apparent way to know if a person is qualified ahead of time ; the arrows do, however, tend to seek out qualified people on their own if there is someone to guide them.
If the gamble was paying 4-1 and the event occurred, one would make a profit of 40 units.
The expected payoff for both scenarios is $ 50, meaning that an individual who was insensitive to risk would not care whether they took the guaranteed payment or the gamble.
* risk-averse ( or risk-avoiding )-if he or she would accept a certain payment ( certainty equivalent ) of less than $ 50 ( for example, $ 40 ), rather than taking the gamble and possibly receiving nothing.
Schlieffen's great gamble would, ironically, result in the one outcome he had feared: A long, drawn-out war of attrition against a numerically stronger enemy.
AS-90 started in the mid-1980s as a private venture on the ' gamble ' that the tri-national SP70 would fail.
Buell quotes Spruance speaking with Morison: " As a matter of tactics I think that going out after the Japanese and knocking their carriers out would have been much better and more satisfactory than waiting for them to attack us, but we were at the start of a very important and large amphibious operation and we could not afford to gamble and place it in jeopardy.
Players would meet and inspect the items each other had available to gamble.
The name is a reference to the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco where Ulam's uncle would borrow money to gamble.
In an op-ed piece in The New York Times in July 2008, Morris wrote, " Iran's leaders would do well to rethink their gamble and suspend their nuclear program.
While staying in Reno, Nevada, in the 1950s, he would often gamble all night.
0.559 seconds.