Word: macklis
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...crowd to 35. Then it took over a couple of CBS studios, crowded advertising executives and the program director in one, put Myrt in the other. Forthwith auditions commenced. It took three days to pick the new Marge. Unanimous choice for Marge was pert, black-haired Cinemactress Helen Mack, who had the role of a streetwalker in His Girl Friday...
...somehow a Mack Sennett disciple, perhaps Buster Keaton, was given the job of re-writing the script for the screen. The resultant story had the old name and the old characters, but a somewhat newer approach to the problems of the tenant farmer. Slim Summerville ended up in one of the key dramatic parts; the Three Stooges and Mickey Rooney were unfortunately unavailable, so the Esquire hillbilly roles written for them were given to lesser-known great actors. Will Hays found nothing to censor, and the Governor of Georgia's sole complaint was that the state's fine peaches weren...
...life in Rio is shown-the expansive interior of a great nightclub tall, draped and mirrored rooms of the Baron's house, the modernistic interior of the Rio Stock Exchange. In these settings, Brazilian life seems polite and well-dressed, constantly accompanied by an ordinary assortment of Mack Gordon-Harry Warren tunes sung against a background of beautiful girls. Of the Brazilian characters, only the Baron's rival broker (J. Carrol Naish) has a trace of perfidy and that is gently masked. Since Miss Faye as the Baroness with a brush of Brooklyn in her accent prefers...
...Hollywood offerings ($350,000) which startle even their closest friends with huge returns (present guesstimate: $1,000,000). It also gives audiences a satisfactory opportunity to appraise the talents of Broadway Comics Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, a new pair of old-school comedians full of blackface repartee and Mack Sennett slapstick...
...program board, Henry Steinhardt '42, Robert T. Mack, Jr. '42, Alfred Lurie '43, Curtis A. Bush '43, Richard P. Kleeman '44, and Howard M. Spiro '44 were selected. Victor M. Kumin '43 and Richard L. Weinberg '43 were picked for the production staff...