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...Rouben Mamoulian is looking for a singer-actress to play the lead in Carmen, to be filmed in Seville with a libretto by Playwright Maxwell Anderson...
...Producer David O. Selznick (who got the western-hemisphere rights to the picture in return for allowing wife Jennifer Jones to appear in it) sued London Films Producer Alexander Korda to enjoin release of the film overseas. A British law court decided against Selznick. Last year Selznick hired Director Rouben Mamoulian to reshoot almost a third of the picture in Hollywood for U.S. release...
...Love Me Tonight" has a slight edge on its companion piece in entertainment value as well as in the amount of impressive talent it displays. This story of a tailor who successfully woos a princess has the light directorial touch of Rouben Mamoulian and some superb Rodgers and Hart songs, including "Isn't it Romantic," "Mimi," and the immortal "Lover." C. Aubrey Smith and Myrna Loy are featured players, along with Charlie Ruggles as a flat broke viscount and Charlie Butterworth, that incomparable old-school comedian, as Chevalier's and eyed rival for Miss MacDonald's hand. "One Hour With...
Arms and the Girl (book by Herbert & Dorothy Fields & Rouben Mamoulian; music by Morton Gould; lyrics by Dorothy Fields; produced by the Theatre Guild in association with Anthony Brady Farrell) can thank its stars that they are its stars. For Broadway's Nanette Fabray and the Continent's Georges Guetary, together with Singing Comedienne Pearl Bailey, have the charm and personality to make Arms and the Girl a good deal better evening than it is a show...
...first act moves at a fast pace, thanks to Rouben Mamoulian's direction. The show suffers from a slight ease of second act sag, but in spite of this, a bouncing, healthy show was born Tuesday night at the Shubert...