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...article in TIME, Dec. 22, concerning me in connection with Forever Amber and the Legion of Decency, cannot possibly be classed as factual reporting. You gave the mischievous impression that I slyly maneuvered the Legion into placing that film in the "C" or condemned classification for the sake of box-office stimulation, when you said that I "guessed, correctly, that Legion disapproval would whet public pruriency and boost attendance." Your guess as to my guess was completely wrong as to the facts. Let me state these facts...
...TIME indeed guessed wrong as to Cinemogul Skouras' intentions, thanks him for setting the record straight on Forever Amber's "clean...
...needed dollars (TIME, Dec. 21). And no matter how Hollywood feared the bark of pressure groups, the bite had not yet proved painful. Among the two big moneymakers of 1947, according to Variety, were David O. Selznick's Duel in the Sun and Darryl Zanuck's Forever Amber, both of which had been frowned on by the Legion of Decency...
With his first-run business assured, Cinemagnate Skouras has yielded a few points to the Legion; now, he hopes, Amber will meet less resistance in neighborhood theaters, where the Legion's disapproval might take greater effect. "Certain . . . eliminations" have been made and there is a moral-pointing prologue: "This is the tragic story of Amber St. Clare. Slave to ambition, stranger to virtue. Fated to find the wealth and power she ruthlessly gained wither to ashes in the fires lit by passion and fed by defiance of the eternal command. The wages of sin is death...
...epilogue has also been added in which Cornel Wild echoes some earlier lines: "In heaven's name, Amber, haven't we caused enough unhappiness? May God have mercy on us both for our sins...