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Major Barbara (Pascal-United Artists). George Bernard Shaw, 84 and the world's No. 1 living dramatist, did everything but grind the camera in this second authorized full-length screen version of one of his plays. He wrote its scenario and dialogue, brought the 36-year-old drama up to date with some 30 new scenes, supervised its direction, dominated its production. The result is a cinema treat...
That these trials of the most turbulent 18 months in the history of Great Britain did not keep Producer Gabriel Pascal from turning out a polished and distinguished product is a transcendent Oscar in the onetime cavalryman's lap. The squat, fervent, irascible Transylvanian, determined to use his hard-won franchise on the world's richest mine of entertainment material, not only had to play cook & bottle washer but also had the redoubtable Shavian personality to contend with...
...Pascal: "I have taken back all my heavy cigars, and exchanged them for very mild . . . ones. I no longer smoke at all during the day. . . . Very soon I shall only smoke . . . once a week. After that' I shall buy a pipe...
...Pascal: "Now, my dear archangel...
Last week Producer Pascal was in Manhattan, basking in the kliegshine of Major Barbara's highly successful Broadway premiere. He was anxious to get back to England to start work on either his master's The Doctor's Dilemma or The Millionairess. Said he: "I have a life work-one hit after another- only ready for me to make." The Reluctant Dragon (Disney-RKO-Radio) is billed as Walt Disney's fourth full-length cartoon movie. Actually, it is two and a half Disney shorts with Comic Robert Benchley and a conducted tour through the Disney...