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With big studio production giving way to independent production, Hollywood heard further news of its quiet revolution (TIME, Feb. 13). Last week, following hard on Darryl Zanuck's resignation as executive producer of 20th Century-Fox, Paramount Studio Chief Don Hartman resigned to do what Zanuck plans to do: produce independent films. Columbia's Production Chief Jerry Wald was reported to be contemplating the same course...
...Boston: Danny Kaye shows flashes of brilliance and mediocrity in The Court Jester at the Paramount and Fenway. Picnic is unpleasing because it is dull and Mid-western, though Susie Strasburg is infinitely Central Park West at Loew's State and Orepheum. Diabolique is still the biggest secret since John Thomson spent the weekend at the White House. At the Beacon Hill. Carousel has russet-thatched Gordon MacRae, which is more than anyone could ask, at Keith's Memorial. The Rose Tatoo is all AnnaMagnani's at the Met, which says ". . . Every week is a record. The crowds! The cheers...
...weeks later Bill had a movie contract ($50 a week) but what about a name? "Beedle!" exclaimed a Paramount executive. "It sounds like an insect." Just then his secretary announced that William Holden, a West Coast newsman, was on the wire. That took care of the name, now all Bill needed was a part. Fate got busy again. Over at Columbia, Director Rouben Mamoulian saw Bill's screen test, grabbed him for the title role of Golden Boy, the Clifford Odets play about a young pug who could hit like Marciano and fiddle like Paganini...
Bill had left Paramount a boy; he came back a man who meant business. By 1946 he had three children (two boys, and a girl born of Ardis' first marriage) as well as a wife to support, and he intended to make a good job of it. At the studio gate he got his first shock: the gatekeeper said he had never heard of William Holden, and refused to let him in. In the executive offices he got another: moviegoers had forgotten all about William Holden, and the big bosses saw no particular reason to remind them...
...popularity subsides, many a studio will be glad to get him as an executive, and one has already offered him a production unit of his own. Meanwhile, Bill is making the most, in a practical way, of his powerful position. Last year he traveled 135,000 miles for Paramount as an "ambassador of good will," selling Hollywood-and Bill Holden-in 16 countries. This year he will hit the road again: from Paris to Moscow, Cairo to Hong Kong. On the way he picks up culture as well as contacts-he has made a handsome collection of primitive...