Taming The Lion

07/27/2021

Latest review

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04/25/2021

Can you spare a few dollars for my facebook fundraiser? https://www.facebook.com/donate/496118568212509/10226235837106127/?thank_you

03/27/2020

Still waiting to hear on the status of the show. It doesn't look good. This damn virus is closing everything. But what is more important? In the long run, a human life.

03/22/2020

We're hoping to re-open the show soon. It all depends on what happens with the health situation in Southern California.

03/17/2020

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Playwright Jack Rushen did a superb job of digging into Metro Goldwyn Mayer’s history – most especially the history surrounding Louis B. Mayer’s autocratic hold on the film industry for decades. Bu…

03/12/2020

More production photos!!

03/03/2020

Countdown to Opening!

02/26/2020

COMING UP! THIS IS THE PROGRAM COVER

02/12/2020

Introducing Jeffrey Winner who will be playing Louis B. Mayer in Taming the Lion.

02/10/2020

This just in. The program cover for TTL in Beverly Hills.

02/05/2020

Joining the cast of TAMING THE LION in sunny California are Marie Broderick as Joan Crawford and Landon Beatty as Billy Haines.

02/04/2020

Introducing Landon Beatty who will be playing William Haines in TAMING THE LION at Theatre40 in Beverly Hills.

02/04/2020

Introducing Marie Broderick Miller, playing Joan Crawford in TAMING THE LION in Beverly Hills.

01/28/2020

Thanks to all my wonderful actor friends who brought TAMING THE LION to life last night at the Palace theatre in Stamford. Marc Hartog, Leigh Katz, Duane Lanham, Rob Pawlikowski,
Ellen krinick, David Jackins, my brother Tom Rushen and especially Lynne Colatrella who put everything together. And the photos, as usual, were taken by Rod Jovanelly.

01/17/2020

An excerpt from TAMING THE LION:

MAYER Someone from the press---I won't say who---saw you the other night with your little "buddy boy" driving
into the parking lot of the Beverly Hotel with two sailors. And I think it's a safe bet to say it wasn't a meeting to discuss the seventh fleet. Two sailors? You deny this?

HAINES Categorically. We did not pull in that lot with two sailors.

Beat.

MAYER Do you swear?

HAINES Yes. There were three. I keep an extra in the trunk.

Mayer explodes.

MAYER JESUS CHRIST!! WHAT DO I HAVE TO DO TO GET A STRAIGHT ANSWER FROM YOU?? WHY THE HELL CAN'T YOU BE SERIOUS?

HAINES I like to see the humor in things. I think you know that.

MAYER Humor. Look, Billy--- I find Charlie Chaplain funny. I find Harold Lloyd funny. Buster Keaton, ten years ago, I found funny. You, I don't find funny at all. So don't try and be a comedian.

HAINES Okay, seriously. Mr. Mayer, I am of a certain persuasion. Yes. I will admit that. But I don't hurt anyone, and I'm not ashamed of who I am.

MAYER Really? I am. I'm totally ashamed. And may I mention again that you have a morals clause in your contract? It cost me dearly to keep that story out of the papers.

01/17/2020

The conflict in TAMING THE LION: William Haines was constantly under pressure by the studio to keep his sexuality a secret. Louis B. Mayer was afraid he would lose money if word got out, and he'd go bankrupt. So what is a greedy man to do? Do the words blackmail and deceit come to mind? NEXT STOP: Theatre40 in Beverly Hills---March 13-April 13. World Premiere

01/17/2020

Another Hollywood tragedy. Falsely accused Fatty Arbuckle.

01/17/2020

Hollywood scandal. Peg Entwhistle who jumped off the H of the Hollywood sign.

01/17/2020

Are we getting into the old Hollywood spirit?

01/17/2020

More old Hollywood

01/11/2020

Come and see a true Hollywood story. We go back to 1933.

01/10/2020

What do you do when you have the biggest and most powerful movie studio in the world, and one man stands in your way of success? Do the words power, blackmail, and deceit come to mind? Come and see TAMING THE LION and find out for yourself.

01/09/2020

In his heyday!!

01/08/2020

If Joan Crawford couldn't straighten this guy out, then something is really wrong!!

01/08/2020

What do you do when you have the biggest and most powerful movie studio in the world, and one man stands in your way of success? Do the words power, blackmail, and deceit come to mind? Come and see TAMING THE LION and find out for yourself.

01/08/2020

The Main Man

01/07/2020

The characters in the story. William Haines, Joan Crawford, and Louis B.