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Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., cousin of Alfred, chatted of his widowed mother in Script magazine: "Mother is back in town after a month at Hot Springs, Va., where she went to recondition her 'pump' and her 'plumbing.' ... I thought she looked better before going there...
...This Force appears as the mirror image of Edward G. Robinson and by its continual wise-cracking turns the story into a parody in spite of the intentions of the writer and the efforts of the actor. The third story, by avoiding the obvious and the general in its script, is by far the best of the lot. Charles Boyer, as a tight-rope performer, has a role second only to Betty Field's female Scrooge, and Barbara Stanwyek gives him compotent support. The plot has its intriguing angle and even succeeds in making itself seem plausible...
...story chiefly concerns the producer's stratagems to get the genius to script a vague but colossal idea about"all the mothers in the world" called Ave Maria...
...less a Broadway opening than a kind of $5.50 question. On its road tryout Gypsy Rose Lee's maiden effort at playwriting, THE NAKED GENIUS, had become the script-tease of the season. Two days after it went into rehearsal, it was sold to 20th Century-Fox on a sliding-scale basis for a maximum $365,000. In Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, it packed them in-but kept stalling off its Broadway opening. Then Producer Michael Todd (Star & Garter, Something for the Boys) boldly announced he would open the show there over the violent protests of Gypsy and Director George...
...that moment President Schaefer was ousted in one of RKO's then-frequent studio shuffles, and Golden had to start from scratch with pro tem President Ned Depinet. Mr. Depinet assigned an obscure script writer, Emmet Lavery, an equally obscure director, Edward Dmytryk, to make Hitler's Children, and the picture went into production with RKO's and Golden's money in partnership. After two days' shooting Golden was informed that the Guaranty Trust had decided not to make the loan after all: the war might end and leave the bank high & dry. "What," screamed...