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Rabbi Harold H. Mashioff, at whose Temple of the Covenant the desecration scene was filmed, gave consent because the synagogue has been desecrated several times. He found it "difficult to see how any group could take offense at this film." Said he: "In no part of the script was suspicion cast upon any minority or group. All religions are facing this difficulty and we cannot correct an evil without showing what...
...North Star" presents the Hollywood horse opera dressed in new costumes. It's still the story of peaceful, happy Red Gulch taken over by bad hombres, and the finish is pure Tom Mix. All this despite the fact that supposedly gutty and loftist Lillian Hollman wrote the script. The problem is simple. No matter what a picture is about, it must be good as a moving picture, and no tagging on of Russian names is going to help much...
...Love, No Laughs. Hitchcock is no improviser. By the time shooting starts he knows the script by heart, knows to the last foot every effect he proposes to get out of the picture. He is a good actor, a superb teacher, a meticulous director. He will spend ten minutes not only demonstrating but explaining why a certain effect will be achieved if the actor gets less animation into his hands. Then he will do the scene himself. He never enacts a love scene; he will not risk a laugh...
...than words. In his first ten years in Hollywood, Barrymore earned $2,634,500, squandered almost every cent of it. A steady drinker at 14, in his last 40 years-a doctor estimated-Barrymore swallowed "640 barrels of hard stuff." Once, while suffering from extreme fatigue, he tackled a script 56 times, could never recite it through. Otherwise he was seldom at a loss for words. Good Night, Sweet Prince offers many a fresh example of Barrymore's under-the-table talk...
...production is under the direction of Elliot Duvey, whose worries in the past week have ranged from the receipt of a revised script (Saroyan, believe it or not, cut 15 pages, mostly from the first act--and it was a beautiful job of getting off the soap box) to the necessity--brought about by mumps, of all things, knocking out the original castee--of doubling in the lealing role of army-bound Ernest Hughman. Fred Graves, who appears as August, the Hughman rejected by the army, bears an incarnal resemblance to Eddie Dowling, who has often appeared in Saroyan plays...