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...Paris, Hollywood Producer Walter Wanger ran into an old French custom. Speaking before the American Club, Wanger rapped U.S. film critics as "immature and incompetent," singled out Critic Art Buchwald of the European edition of the New York Herald Tribune, who had panned the Wanger-produced Joan of Arc. Forthwith, Critic Buchwald challenged Wanger to a duel. Sending no seconds, Wanger retorted: "A cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Toil & Trouble | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

...Cinemaestro Roberto Rossellini announced that he would get to work soon on a film portraying the life of St. Francis of Assisi (to be shot, of course, in the mountain town of Assisi). He will get artistic advice, but no performance, from his great & good friend, Ingrid (Joan of Arc) Bergman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: New Directions | 10/24/1949 | See Source »

This week 100,000 jammed grandstands, pavilions and infield to watch Europe's richest horse race, the Prix de l'Arc-de-Triomphe. Despite devaluation, the mile-and-a-half event for three-year-olds and up paid the winners a whacking $122,857. At post time, a few infield sentimentalists dredged up their last sous to get aboard Rita Hayworth's filly Double Rose. Amour Drake and Val Drake, wearing the funereal black silks of Paris' most dramatic relict, the dashing young widow of Theatrical Magnate Leon Volterra, were the heavy favorites, but form players...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Love's Long Shot | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

...round table, in one corner a twelve-inch statue of the Holy Virgin, in another an assortment of canes and crutches. This was the audience room where miracle-seekers met one of the Bélanger children-either André, 12, Réal, 10, Jeanne d'Arc, 9, or Robert...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Hemisphere: Miracle Business | 10/3/1949 | See Source »

...Modern Museum of Art, this fall's program consists of a short survey of the film in America, beginning with "The Great Train Robbery" and running through "All Quiet on the Western Front." In the spring, classical foreign pictures from France and Germany, including "The Passion of Jean of Arc" and numerous German propaganda films, will be presented for the benefit of club members...

Author: By Gene R. Kearney, | Title: Premiere, Memberships Drive Launch Ivy Films' 3rd Year | 9/28/1949 | See Source »

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