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When the Roman Catholic Legion of Decency recently demanded that he change the title and almost everything else about Forever Amber, Cinemogul Skouras took a strategic fit of Achillean sulks, and changed nothing. The old publicity campaigner guessed, correctly, that Legion disapproval would whet public pruriency and boost attendance as nothing in the juiceless film itself could...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Greek Gift | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

During November, which suffered some dismal box-office dumps,* Amber grossed a sensational...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Greek Gift | 12/22/1947 | See Source »

...expurgated but nevertheless lusty "Amber" is free from further ravages of censorship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Ban Lifted But Amber's Sexy as Ever | 12/10/1947 | See Source »

Massachusetts State Censorship imposed three cuts on "Forever Amber" two weeks ago, after which the Police Commissioner, the Commission of Arts, and Mayor Curley, sitting as a city censorship board, struck out two additional parts...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Ban Lifted But Amber's Sexy as Ever | 12/10/1947 | See Source »

...builders, U.S. readers got St. Elmo and Under Two Flags. When the clipper ships were sailing to China, one of the popular novels was The Scarlet Letter. When the wagon trains were going over South Pass, it was Swiss Family Robinson. The year before Japan fell, it was Forever Amber...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Alltlme Best-Sellers | 11/17/1947 | See Source »

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