Moving On Up
Within a year, Mayer promoted Mannix to MGM’s general manager. This meant that Mannix became more of what he was at his previous job at the amusement park: an all-around fixer. Mannix worked closely with the studio’s head of publicity, Howard Strickling, and the two had their own ways of making sure that Hollywood scandals didn’t make the papers.
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Strickling would frequently feed reporters false stories or steer them in a different direction with less-scandalous stories about another actor. While Strickling worked the reporters, Mannix made sure that the scandals themselves went away. This meant bailing actors out of jail, paying off call girls, and even victims of the studio’s stars’ antics.