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Victor Fleming, who directed her in Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde, calls her Angel. Sam Wood calls her "a fine wholesome girl," and gracefully credits her and Cooper with the excellent morale of the whole outfit during difficulties on The Bell's location. Deafening Gregory Ratoff shouts: "Haffing diracted Meese Boergmann in her foerst two Amerrican peetures, I vould say puzzitiffly I hope I do de same tvanty-two timeps more. She is sansahtional...
...didn't you tell me you could sing?" demanded Director Ratoff in his unreproduceable dialect...
Last spring Hollywood Director Gregory Ratoff, in Manhattan on a talent hunt, filmed a few sequences of Entertainer Scott at the piano, took them back to Hollywood to insert in a new Jack Oakie-Don Ameche picture, Something to Shout About. Columbia officials saw the sequences, quickly revamped the film, wrote in a fat part for her, brought her out to Hollywood. Then Ratoff discovered her dusky singing voice...
Terrible-tempered Gregory Ratoff, according to Columnist John Chapman, was giving all of his directorial attention to making two great Danes hold still for a scene in The Corsican Brothers, now shooting. One of the beasts was fidgety, wouldn't behave. Raged the frustrated director: "Take that dog's name! I'll never give him another part...
...Adventuress (20th Century-Fox) is a remake of a French film of the same name and a lively demonstration of what Hollywood experts can sometimes do to make a trite story into a thoroughly entertaining picture. The experts are Producer Darryl F. Zanuck, Associate Producer Nunnally Johnson, Director Gregory Ratoff. The story is about two Continental con men (Erich von Stroheim & Peter Lorre) who work the better resorts and the grander hotels until their lovely confederate, the fake Countess Vronsky (Zorina), falls in love and marries one of their well-to-do victims (Richard Greene). Then they go to work...