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...Todd a British major, and William Holden will be U.S. Lieut. Colonel Benjamin Vandervoort. Henry Fonda will be General James Gavin, now U.S. Ambassador to France (as a private little joke among peers, Zanuck earlier told Gavin that he thought Mickey Rooney would be right for the part). French Actor-Director Jean-Louis Barrault will appear as the abbe of Sainte-Mere-Eglise. Model Irina Demich, known previously only to Zanuck, will play a young Resistance heroine. She already has a proper military attitude: "All I can think of is to make a success in this picture...
...most prominent members of the class, Conrad Aiken, was expected to arrive today. Actor-director Howard Lindsay, another famous member, did not attend this year...
...first scene, the cat is supposed to hear an alarm clock, wake up, and then rouse his deaf ami by licking his face. But the first dozen Parisian alley cats had flunked their screen tests. Gleason, who plays Gigot, swabbed off the sardine oil and discussed things with Actor-Director Kelly. Importing trained cats from Hollywood would cost almost $10,000, it developed. It was decided to go on with the screen tests. Gleason smeared on more sardine...
...jazz concerts of the shantytown shebeens. A group met soon after the fighter's suicide and planned what may have seemed an impossible production: book by white Lawyer-Novelist Harry Bloom, lyrics by white Journalist Patricia Williams, score by black Jazz Composer Todd Matshikiza, direction by white Actor-Director Leon Gluckman, a veteran of London's Old Vic. When rehearsals began, they had to be conducted against odds: the curfew, threatening Johannesburg hooligan gangs, the rules of apartheid...
...American custom to decorate the Christmas card with a photo of the population explosion in the family. Few in Hollywood are better qualified to do so than Actor-Director José Ferrer and Songstress Rosemary Clooney, who posed beamingly with their three oldest tykes -Miguel José, 5 ; Maria Providencia, 4 ; Gabriel Vicente, 3 - while Rosemary held Monsita Theresa, 2, and Ferrer bear-hugged tiny Rafael Francisco, the eight-month-old newcomer...