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...with 3,000 people in the cathedral and 20,000 in the streets." Later in the U.S., Ritchard wasted his directorial skills on a dismal flop called Buy Me Blue Ribbons ("The reviews were simply blasting"), became identified as a periwigged fop in Restoration comedies ("That was my Mary Pickford period-all those long, blonde wigs...
...swarming demand for studio space has revived and even expanded old movie lots that had been virtually silent almost since the silent movie days. In the Kling Studios where Charlie Chaplin made The Gold Rush, and on lots that twinkled with the names of Theda Bara, Mary Pickford, Harold Lloyd and Janet Gaynor, TV now grinds out commercials and films-Burns & Allen, Ozzie & Harriet...
...past five years the revolution toward independent production has been spearheaded by United Artists, one of Hollywood's oldest motion picture distributing companies. United Artists was formed in 1919 to distribute the independent films of its four owners: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Charles Chaplin, D. W. Griffith. In early 1951 the company was losing $100,000 a week. It was so desperate that it offered a group headed by Lawyers Arthur Krim and Robert Benjamin half the company's stock, valued at $5,400,000 and full control for ten years at the nominal cost...
When the Krim-Benjamin group took over U.A. in 1951, the other half of the stock was owned in equal parts by Chaplin and Mary Pickford. Last year Chaplin sold his share to Krim-Benjamin for an undisclosed sum (TIME, March 14, 1955). Last week Mary Pickford sold her share too, and the Krim-Benjamin group became 100% owners of the company that has done more than any other single force to change the industrial pattern of Hollywood...
While 1955 was no vintage year for biography, there were some good short lives and two or three jobs of major quality. None seemed so anxious to tell all as actresses or their biographers-from Mary Pickford (Sunshine and Shadow) to Ethel Barrymore (Memories) to Katharine Cornell (Me and Kit) to the late Gertrude Lawrence as Mrs. A. The best work was done by writers who wrote about other writers...