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...peccadilloes throw a lurid light on Hollywood's supercolossal, cast-of-thousands inefficiency. Marlon Brando has already taken more than $1,000,000 in salary from the Mutiny on the Bounty production, conducting mutinies of his own that helped drive production costs beyond $20 million. Films exist at the whim of their stars. Marilyn Monroe's various illnesses have kept her away from Fox's Something's Got to Give; says Di rector Billy Wilder, who knows her from the anguished days of Some Like It Hot: "It used to be you'd call...
...companies it books do better than its own productions. "I felt that a town with so many actors in it should have a place for them to act before live audiences," he says. "They turned their backs on it. It made me sore as hell recently to read that Marlon Brando and some other actors were going to start a theater there so that at last Hollywood would have a living theater. I gave them one in 1954 and spent a million bucks on it." Hundreds of thousands more have gone into Hartford's researches on graphology...
...Marlon Brando called her "the fat one," Author Ben Hecht "one of the most sad things in Hollywood." When they get up enough courage in their cups, some pressagents refer to her simply as "the old broad"-after glancing nervously around to see that only friends are present. The object of this catalogue of clouts, usually more affectionate than they seem, prefers to describe herself as "the gay illiterate," a tag she swiped from a magazine story and magnified into an autobiography in 1944. This week Louella Oettinger Parsons adds another hard-cover installment, Tell It to Louella (Putnam...
With him was shard-voiced Comedienne Peggy Cass, taping a TV show with U.S. officers and soldiers as guests. Maintaining his most serious facial expression -his Marlon Brandenburg look-Paar stole sidewise glances across the border into curtainsville, wondering whether...
...MARLON BRANDO...